# occupy itch status: conceptual political jam unionizing against neoliberal-brain-worm individualism in the digital art community that is: no bosses only artists despite busting one's arts for a micro slice of that stale indiedev pie i can no longer morally avoid witnessing all the sweat blood tears and unacknowledged grind taking place on and behind itch among and despite all the happy pixels it's little but bent backs carpel tunnel syndrome unpaid bills and zero analytic engagement things must change for the better; artists on itch should take over the platform for themelves; common volks this ain't rocket science in the relentless grinding pursuit of the absolute minimum necessary living wage on offer artists on itch are getting shafted and just like in gambling the house always wins it's always the platform that gets the lion's share of the profits from other people's labor talk about a fractured isolated alienated scene of hyper-individualism; when i hear the terms 'indiegarme' and 'indiedev' i can't help but keep hearing "the systematic institutional and cultural inability to discuss labor organizing & unionization along overtly communal socialist lines" together people together // republic of bob