Rhythm and Hues can bite me. They are part of the problem, not the part of the solution. They were happy to outsource jobs from America when it served their purpose to get cheap contracts and undercut other American FX companies that went out of business because of them. Now they go out of business from an environment that is a race to the bottom for wages that they helped create. They made the rope they are now hanging by. Their awareness now that they are gone is too little too late. Let their rotting corpse be a testament to their betrayal and cowardice.
Even though they were one of the first to outsource labor and offer cheaper wages now they are complaining.? If people want to complain about the loss of art and VFX jobs that is one thing but don't hold this company and its owners up as martyrs because they weren't, they were traitors to the cause and created their own undoing. Their artists worked for free on projects and now have the audacity to whine about their company going under? Each one of them helped to create this environment and now they reap the spoils of those decisions.
Outsourcing was illegal for the most part and thought to be un-American before NAFTA. Other countries that were part of the trade agreements created tax incentives to bring in business. We could have too but didn't and the companies didn't care because upper management was getting richer faster.
Globalization was always going to be at the workers expense not the business owners, or so they thought. Artists in the industry were always willing to trade their self worth and self respect for peanuts working 80 hour weeks being paid for 40 hours and taking lower and lower pay in the process until what was a middle class profession is now a minimum wage job.
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