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Slave Labor in Video Games
Cordova, TN; September 25, in the year of our Lord
2015--Family Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in
covering the family friendly video games is completing paying
for a public service announcement for the entire video game
industry. Slave Labor, and Child Labor needs to stop inside the
video game industry. Slave labor has been used in a variety of
cultures throughout history. Ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and
Rome all used it in their empires. They get work done for very
little cost. In fact even today in the modern world slavery
exists in Africa, and Asia. Some argue that workers in America
and Europe are slaves to those on welfare. How many anti-slave
advocates look at the video game industry? How many anti-child
labor activists look at the video game industry.
Super Mario Maker is the latest slave labor video game that
gives the video game industry yet another black eye and bloody
lip. Nintendo is abusing gamers by having the gamers make levels
for them. Nintendo owns the levels these gamers create. Nintendo
pays no money for all of the work done for them. Nintendo
profits from these levels that gamers make for them. By
definition Nintendo is using gamers as slave labor. How many
children are working for Nintendo? Every single child that works
for Nintendo through Super Mario Maker is not being compensated.
Which means Nintendo is violating child labor laws as well as
using slave labor. Who thinks Nintendo will brag about how much
slave labor they get in the form of user created levels?
Nintendo is not the first company to use this slave labor
tactic. LittleBigplanet used all kinds of slave labor, and child
labor to generate millions of user created levels. Sony paid
these workers nothing for all of that content. In fact Sony and
Nintendo charge gamers for the tools to create these levels.
They are profiting from convincing gamers to work for them for
free. Mojang was very kind to their users. They let their gamers
profit from the Youtube videos showing off their creations. Once
Microsoft bought out Mojang, then that generous sharing of
revenue for Minecraft was cut off. What I do not understand is
why these ultra rich corporations think they should get all the
money, and we get none. When will gamers stand up for themselves
and say: “No more slavery in video games!”
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming