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Make people work 12 hour days to ship before you go out of business and corners will need to get cut. Insulting engineers and describing them as "monkeys" because you are unaware of businesses function is quite unwarranted. "Real engineers" need to take a real look at themselves!



"Pay peanuts get monkeys" is a proverb.

> Make people work 12 hour days to ship before you go out of business and corners will need to get cut.

Won't happen. The US barely has any employment laws, and so do many other countries of the world.


Colossal Order is in Finland and Paradox Interactive is in Sweden, both of which have strong employment laws.


What won't happen?


As long as the government doesn't ban employing people for 12 hours and more straight for weeks, and actually enforces that ban, there will always be enough employers doing so, and enough people willing to go through with it "for the credits".


Especially in am industry that sees depressed wages because it's the dream job for many.

I'm still not sure what from my original statement won't happen.




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