YOU read what I wrote. My account was hacked and BANNED by Blizzard. So yeah, I was not only trying to get help with a hacked account but a BANNED one.
Fortunately in those days Blizzard had competent people answering the phones and my issue was taken care of in less than 30 minutes. My items took longer to restore but that’s fine. I didn’t have to go back and forth for days with automatons that didn’t know jack.
If you accept a job offer without knowing how much you’re going to be paid for that position, how often you might expect raises or promotions, then that’s whose fault? You didn’t ask when you were interviewed? You didn’t research BEFORE you applied for the job? Who’s fault is that again? Further, it’s not YOUR business what somebody else makes just like it’s not their business how much you make.
i fail to see how the OP sees the bad choices made by the high level staff in the administration of Blizzard as a result of, assumed, low wages.
Was the original honor system changed because low level employees, supposedly, are underpaid?
Were flying mounts introduced for that same reason?
Were xrealms a result of low wages?
I seriously see no ground for this absurd assumption.
Because CEO’s aren’t self regulating. There’s a large wage disparity that I shouldn’t be educating you about.
Exploited regulations and laws allow this.
Why do they need to self regulate? What duty do they owe to self regulate, to whom, and why?
…and? There’s also a huge healthiness disparity between citizens of the US, and athleticism gap, and education gap, and skill gap, and… and… and none of that is novel or interesting by itself.
WHY does a wage disparity matter, specifically with regards to the highest and lowest paid individuals within a single company.
Exploitation is just another word for “use”
Exploitation is also one of the pillars of property law, so you’re going to have to do better than “People use valid laws and regulations” because that’s what people are supposed to be doing. The business judgment rule is a JUDGE MADE doctrine.
The loopholes for the wealthy in america go far beyond just C level compensation.
Their employees. The people that are being exploited by the
No one out lives someone by 400x the normal limit. You’re argument is bad.
No its not. You are infinitely closer to being homeless then you are ever being a billionaire. Especially with your logic.
Capital gains and passive income should also be taxed at a much higher rate.
Why should someone benefit from sitting on money? Makes no sense from a tax collection perspective.
If anything the opposite of what OP is saying is true. We’re only hearing complaints about low wages now after a consistent drop in game quality and customer service over the course of a decade. It’s not just a WoW problem, it’s Blizzard wide.
You reap what you sow. The low quality products didn’t just coalesce from nothing, they were created by Blizzard employees. Why should employees who create substandard products command high wages?
Well, communism/socialist ideology is trending the last years as a mentality for many people, so for them everything has to be explained with people being under paid I guess.
Oh? Where is that duty located?
No, but people have so much in terms of education, wealth, social support, etc, that they dramatically outpace and outlive so many others in hundreds of ways.
But again… why does this matter?
Yes, yes it is. If you want to demand government action upon corporate structures, you need to handle the language of law meaningfully or stay out of these discussions entirely. Right now you’re in the camp of “I emotionally feel like this thing isn’t right, it should change” and have neither rhyme nor reason for why.
They aren’t being forced to work there is the thing. Maybe they’re blizzard fanbois and it’s their dream job, and maybe blizzard is scummy to take advantage of that, but if they can get better dollar for their skills they should consider going elsewhere. Not getting paid enough to design video games is also kind of a first world problem.
Hmm?
Game Masters have a few different levels of escalation. Baseline, Senior GM, and developer.
Developers usually make policy that GMs follow.
I mean, we can turn that around pretty easily. When you pay substandard wages, you’re not attracting the best, most skilled, most talented employees - and that reflects in the quality of product produced.
Its probably also worth noting that when you’re not paying employees a living wage, its just corporate wellfare - you’re saving money on wages and passing the costs onto society at large when these employees have to make use of social programs to make ends meet.
Except one of those is a life line to everything else.
No its not. Just because something is legal doesn’t mean its not an exploit. Human history has a multitude of dark examples.
Most often, once the general public gets tired of being “used” or exploited, they often seek to change that status.
Ah so some European countries that have developed this same reasoning and cap on earnings because they’re acting emotionally too…(check out France and Germany) Remember whose defending excessive amounts of wealth.
You dramatically and ignorantly discount what things other than wealth provide…
Well as soon as you prescribe what extralegal grounding society ought to follow, we can discuss that, otherwise society’s minimum expectation of behavior is strictly within the confines of the law, and no more.
Otherwise, “feeling used or exploited” is all you have. Every day in court has at least two parties, with very strong opinions and support for their own position and how they have been wronged. Only one of those parties walks away with a “win.”
You’ll need to do a lot better than feelings.
I highly doubt any country made such decisions so lightly, but you’re not Germany or France, and the laws of another land really aren’t relevant here.
And there’s that emotionally charged language again:
This term is undefined and laden with feelings about how much wealth one ought to have or not, based upon entirely undefined reasoning.
I think you’re dramatically underestimating what having no money means for a person.
Extreme amounts of wealth only exist because extreme amounts of poverty exist.
Good thing laws change. You have a horrible view point on the way society should function.
The rest of you post is just you rambling. I’ve made my point fairly clear and you won’t listen to reason.
There’s a lot of room between extreme wealth and destitute poverty, so I’m not really interested in talking about hypothetical homeless individuals.
Hahaha no.
I never said laws can’t change, but if you’re going to appeal to better things than the law, you had better actually bring something substantial to ground it in, or you’re just whining about feelings.
Hence my original reply:
You have a lot of homework to do.
Your point is that you think “extreme wealth” is bad for Reasons™ and the law should, somehow, someway, prevent that from happening.
I’m sorry, but you haven’t articulated anything of worth. You just want an arbitrary change to the system without understanding the system, the laws, or any of the things you’re seeking to change. You couldn’t even articulate your own reasons for wanting the change.
Just because you insist something is bad, that’s hardly good enough. This isn’t high school debate.
That’s just a lot of nonsense I have no intentions of reading.
Rambling is what I call it.
I’m sorry you can’t follow a basic argument. Pity.