Revelations about Stan Lee in Riesman's biography

[JackDaw]

So yeah, comics creators do have a uniquely bad deal. And any attempts to use "whataboutism" becomes a sleazy exercise where you justify one status-quo by using other industries which exploit stuff to make things better. If IT businesses exploit people shouldn't the debate go, "why don't people in the IT sector get huffed up about exploitation there the way comics fans are"?

No, they really don’t have a “uniquely bad deal”...they have a worse deal than a few privileged groups in Western society that you have chosen to compare them them to.

But I wholeheartedly agree with your point that looking at the wider context (or “whataboutism” as I knew you you would typecast it) should be motivated by moving best practice into other areas.