How have activists been able to so quickly infest and destroy the entire entertainment industry? Video games, comics, localization, maybe Hollywood too though they've been activist from the top down for a while... What's the common factor in all of this?

The problem almost always seems to start with the lowest paid and hardest jobs in a given skill set. If you are a skilled developer, you could make WAY more money for way less work and stress in any industry other than gaming. If you are a skilled translator, you could make WAY more money doing government or corporate translation gigs or freelancing than localizing Japanese entertainment. If you are a skilled writer or artist, comics is among the lowest paying and highest stress jobs you could have. There are a few exceptions obviously, but unless you are a superstar in your industry chances are you'd be better off literally anywhere else.

Who would want to do these low pay high stress jobs? 3 types of people really. The first are actual fans of the medium, who do it out of passion but quickly burn out and leave if corporate or activist interests get in the way of their passion. Second we have those who are at the bottom of their profession who can't get any better job, or who are only working there temporarily to pay their bills while they actively look to jump to another industry. Finally we have the activists, though there is so much overlap between them and the second group I was debating combining them. Activists only care about pushing their ideology and having a platform to preach from, and they view perceived power as more than worth the low pay.

So the only way to fix this would be to make these positions competitive in the rest of the market. They need to be seen as more than a stepping stone to "better" industries or a dumping ground for useless activists. But the question is how?

Gaming in particular is not lacking in money to make this happen, but almost all the money is going towards investors and executive bloat. I don't think any of the existing industries can be fixed, we'd need to create new ones from the ground up and build them around this knowledge.

So what are your ideas? We need to figure this out so we can break the cycle!