Thread by @SecretGamerGrrl

This is absolutely hilarious.

https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1450645888167288834

Like aside from the general Libertarian paint-huffing and thinking the company is based in Wisconsin somehow, there's really not a whole lot to sell.

"Name recognition" does nothing, because 3rd parties are allowed, encouraged even, to slap that name on all their stuff...

the "more business-friendly labor market" being speculated about here simply does not exist. It's a weird niche little industry here. Everyone with the actual qualifications to do what the new union here does either currently works at Paizo, or are already pretty comfortably

employed elsewhere in tabletop, with much better pay and working conditions, and either more prestige or more creative freedom. And are presently, actively fully supporting the union.

Also even if you did have a company full of scabs, they would be unable to make a dime, because

the way this industry works, generally speaking the full-time employees don't actually write the books the companies sell. They handle publishing logistics, editing, distribution, and large scale planning, but the writing gets done by freelancers, like me, who are all doing this

work stoppage thing. And there's nobody out there who could do that and isn't doing it already.

Also like, without the people who work there, the company doesn't really have any assets worth buying. Like, there's SOME stock I'm sure of core rulebooks you could flip, but at the

end of the day, it's a subscription based business model. If a stream of new content isn't getting churned out, you aren't making money, and even the existing supply of hardcovers aren't going to sell really because hey it's the core rules to a dead game at that point. Everyone

would just move on to another game. Extra bad right now when the current edition of PF is as young as it is.

And as for "setting up shop overseas" I mean... it's already an international business like that. People print everything in China and ship out from there, mostly to the

U.S. and other English speaking countries. But like... you can't offload your storehouses and distribution chains, which again, is a huge percentage of what the company does, and beyond that you have specialized technical editors. That's not something you can undercut, and really

not something to outsource to people who aren't fluent in English.

So basically the proposal here is that rather than pay people a living wage and maybe quit forcing them to endure a hostile workplace full of sexual harassment, what the owner of Paizo should do is find someone

willing to buy a warehouse full of books they can't sell, ship them either across the Pacific or like, across the street, and then hope that literally the exact same union of workers decide to settle for terrible working conditions despite nothing at all having changed for them.

It'd save time to just suggest "hey, shut down your business completely to support my weird random bullshit I'm pretending is economic advice!" or "Cede control of your company to one of your employees and leave." Save the trouble of reforming things or everyone getting jobs from

one of the many former employees who just went independent and it actually worked out just fine. Awful lot of those to choose from, even.