Thanks for laying that out, Scott. I think that the only solution is to show the executives that their bottom line will be improved by treating their people better.
There is two kinds of people i see working in games, there is the people that treat games as "art" and there is people that treat it as a something that pays the bills (or pays for their art they do when they get home). Also if Ellsworth Kelly gets called an artist (don't get me wrong sometimes his work is pretty) i should…