@chickdigger802: At the same time advocating moving in to your parents basement to make games. In this guys mind anyone who isn't a millionaire by the time they are 17 has been slacking.
These extra hours also apply downward pressure on wages for these people as well. If a company actually had to staff up to the point where all people were doing 40 hour weeks it sounds (at least according to the numbers above) like there is double the demand for these skills. Every free hour given is actually far more valuable than the person's actual working hours because it keeps the cost of your cubicle mates wages lower as well. For this reason, the "united pixel workers" approach is really the best solution. Any single person cannot overcome the deluge of free labor that powers this industry.
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