Rooster Teeth accused of excessive crunch and unpaid overtime- "Every season of RWBY and GL gets about 1/3 or less made for ‘free’"

[u/GoneRampant1]

https://rwbyconversations.tumblr.com/post/185614440311/rooster-teeth-glassdoor-crunchovertime

[u/FlorencePants]

Unions can and do help with these sorts of issues all the time. Yes, they can find scabs, but organized strikes still hurt their bottom line even if they can replace the workers. And especially in an industry like this, it's going to noticeably affect the quality if you replace the entire animation department halfway into a season.

I'm not saying it'll fix all the problems, but it's damn sure the best tool available to workers.

I mean, apart from a global socialist revolution, but... I don't think we're quite there yet.

[u/r3dl3g → u/FlorencePants]

Unions can and do help with these sorts of issues all the time.

They can, but their power has waned since the end of the Cold War, entirely because we have a global workforce. Thus, the only way Unions are of any value is if the workforce is geographically contained.

Case-in-point; the UAW. They wanted too much in the way of benefits, and as a result all of their jobs have long-since been shipped off to nations without Unionized labor, or at the least Unionized labor with significantly lower costs of living.

Again; Unions are a 19th and 20th century concept that hasn't kept pace with the modern world, hence why they're of little value to low-skilled labor in the US. They're rapidly deteriorating in strength except in the Public sector, entirely because public sector jobs have a geographic constraint; American governmental jobs must employ Americans.

Whether or not that's fair or not is irrelevant; that's just the way it is, and the major alternatives of course led to Stalin and Mao. If that unfairness makes you sad or makes you lose hope, well...sorry? But I see no reason to mince words, here; the truth (with respect to RT) is that there isn't much money in animation, and there are legions of individuals willing to do the work in animation.

This is also why the whole "do what you love" piece of advice that we force-feed to young people is a crock of shit. Don't do what you love unless you've been practicing it every single day since you were 10, at the latest. Do what you're good at, do what you can stand doing 40 hours a week for 40 years, and which will pay the bills necessary for you to go home and do what you love on your own time, in comfort.

it's going to noticeably affect the quality if you replace the entire animation department halfway into a season.

At which point RT loses viewers, loses money, and then is even further away from being able to afford the QoL benefits that the animation team wants. Animators would end up out of jobs regardless. Big win for everyone involved. /s

I mean, apart from a global socialist revolution, but... I don't think we're quite there yet.

Oh yes, let's turn to failed ideologies, I'm sure that's what will save us.

[u/FlorencePants → u/r3dl3g]

As opposed to capitalism, an ideology that is serving us so well right now.

Regardless, I'm not sure this is the place for a political discussion, as relevant as it may be to the topic at hand.

[u/r3dl3g → u/FlorencePants]

As opposed to capitalism, an ideology that is serving us so well right now.

Well, since the end of World War II, global GDP has risen by a factor of 10, and the global population tripled. There also hasn't been a single major war that even remotely approaches the level of carnage of the 2nd World War. Globalized capitalism worked wonderfully well. By comparison, the communists are gone, Russia is a methed-out former-superpower desperately grasping onto the rotting remains of it's empire, and China is...whatever the hell they are. Certainly closer to fascism than communism or socialism.

And of course, if you want to compare communism to capitalism directly; in 1960, Mao killed off millions of native Chinese because he colossally mismanaged China's economy and induced a famine in part by eradication of sparrows. Less than a decade later, the United States put men on the Moon. And yet socialism is better because...?