Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5610178-20161009233707/@comment-28656770-20161012214826

Bafolo, I think you wildly misjudge how a corporation like this works. It's a bureaucracy, first off, which means that only a handful of people are sitting at the top with all the money. Second, the staff we interact with are the developers. The money they make, they've truly earned, and we put them through quite a bit of crap too, what with all the whining and complaining when they're just trying to make things better for us in the long run. Beyond that, you have the people who keep the building everyone works in clean, the people who maintain staff records and workplace relations. Everyone has a part, and not all of them are millionaires, yet they all still work under the same company name. It's a more complex issue than you're giving it credit for.

Either way, you had to have known when you signed on for this what you were getting into. These sites are more or less volunteer-based projects that people can choose to add to or not. No one is forcing you, and it's not the end of the world if you don't either. People contribute because they want to share their passion with others who enjoy it as much as they do. That's not manipulation, exploitation, or anything like what you've said. We're allowed to clock in whenever we want, put in as much as we feel like, and go do something else if we get bored or frustrated. Literally the only person keeping you here is YOU.

I'm also extremely confused by what you mean when you say Wikia is exploiting poor people from poor countries. The way I have always understood it is that these sites are typically run by people who are in first world nations with access to the resources and free time they need to make this a success. Besides, if you're not already well-off in a poorer nation, why would your priority be anything less than trying to move up in the world? Plus you have the issue of the expenses that come with being part of a particular fandom, the social and time commitments... It just goes on and on, and I have never seen anyone struggling because they contribute to a Wikia.

In the end, whatever you want to do is up to you, but your complaining is largely unfounded.