1 I think the 'deprofessionalization' article today is the one most interesting to me.

Out of the way first, that claim about it not happening for books may simply be ignorance about the book market.  I understand that it has happened to a degree, but maybe I am not understanding my sources or something.  (My best bet is that this article's writer's source was wrong a bit, but maybe he is talking a degree beyond what I know.)

Deep background, I think the professionalization of more than one occupation was a destructive mistake that we are in the middle of paying serious costs for.  The first occupation that comes to mind for that is teaching.  Education majors seem to be obscenely terrible these days, even if this is quite unfair to the good people that the system is not stopping from being credentialed.  Social work is an obvious second occupation whose professionalization was a bit of a dubious choice.

I think some of the existing professions, law and medicine, were okay when the universities were actually teaching from liberal arts, and the totalitarians providing government funding to universities were not insisting on capturing fields with political expedience.  But, critical theory has pushed out liberal arts, and it is not clear to me that law or medicine functions as a profession or as an occupation under the current 'leadership'. 

So game development is having the same organization problems that everyone else is having, because leadership was stupid enough to take 'consensus' seriously and weight it significantly in their modeling.  They produced crap because they did not understand, or did not care about their market.  And large organizations (in games would) only have advantages in known markets where knowledge of what will serve that market has not been pushed out. 

So the big game companies worried about making banking, etc., happy with woke shit, and hired insane people, and maybe the jobs are going away soon. 

Creative writers are exactly a university trained occupation that I would expect to be terrible enough from the 'training' that do not know that they are terrible, and to have trouble switching to a more functional industry that needs competent writers. 

Anyway, I am much much angrier about universities, and the engineering profession than I am about an industry that I have not cared about as an industry for maybe at least a decade.  I'm angrier about medicien and about law than I am about games. 

2 Wait, is that a young Pink before he fell thru the thin ice of modern life??

3 I see Jensen Huang and Nvidia's leadership really wants to be charged with violating US export laws.