"installing cabinets is fun and not that hard, why do contractors insist on being paid for what they build?"
yes, you can make anyone sound entitled when you just entirely dismiss the years of training and practice it requires to develop a specialized skill and the practical value that skill produces with a wave of your hand. Everybody's job is "pretty easy" when you're not the one doing it.
Cabinet installers actually don't get paid well at all. Most homebuilders use general contractors for cabinet installation, and most of them don't get paid any better than the graphics designers you're complaining about. The renovation market is equally unrewarding to installers.
The cabinet industry has consolidated to less than half a dozen manufacturers covering over 90% of the American business. If you're buying cabinets from some local, or some Amish guy, you may not know it but he's actually buying them from a company like Masco. Even the "fully custom" cabinets from the high end boutique kitchen designers come through mass production lines. It's all done with automation, CNC equipment, and multi-million dollar facilities. I just did my kitchen in Plain & Fancy using a local "kitchen designer" who's been doing it 30+ years. Nobody involved is making much money. The cabinet business is tough.
You seem very bitter about all this. The simple fact is that most people lack skills that differentiate them from the pack enough to get paid over $100K with good job security. That's hard, and it takes planning and commitment. Like I said, if you're willing to drive a truck for a living it's pretty easy to make $70K plus full benefits. It's just not as fun as drawing pictures. That's why we have a shortage of truck drivers and an excess of graphic designers making $11 an hour.
That's not my fault or anyone here's fault. It's supply and demand. It can also very easily be sourced internationally, so even if US graphic designers unionized it wouldn't do them much good. The world has always been awash in starving artists. $11/hr would be a dream job for the starving artists in India and much of eastern Europe.
I find it ironic that passionate fans of the most graphically violent game franchise in the history of the world, on the website most dedicated to ruthless competition and a 'git gud' attitude toward dime-a-dozen scrubs, is so dominated by people crying out for more sensitivity in real life. You won't throw a match to the 14 year old button masher. You take pleasure in driving him to rage quit. You don't even feel sorry for him, because he's just another nameless scrub. But when it comes to people who pursue their hobbies as a career, unable to differentiate themselves from the pack, you're all tears and outrage. And I'm the one not making sense.
But if it makes you feel better I'll take a moment to weep for them. Hold on a sec. Ok, I had a good cry. The world's a terrible place. If all you cheap fuckers would just pony up a $10/month subscription fee for online play NRS could have paid everyone a living wage. It's all of our faults for being cheap. Selfish fucking people.
I know how to fix this, though. Let's organize a gofundme page. We'll get the names of all the people who worked on the game and each of us will commit to putting $10/month into that fund for as long as we play the game. That'll fix it all. I'll just cancel my United Way contributions and redirect it to the NRS victim fund. Victims of their own poor choices are the victims most in need.
The battle lines have been pretty well drawn, and I don't think I can force anybody to use their heavily atrophied empathy muscle by making a good point. Locking would be best for this thread.
