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Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return (aftermath.site)
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[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

you could repurpose this headline to literally any creative or journalistic industry these days. "x industry is being propped up by underpaid freelancers" is just a fact of life now. it's just so much cheaper when you don't owe them any benefits or dignity or anything at all in fact.