You should probably double-check the translation before you start trying to analyze word usage like that.
Also re: that post from 4chan, this incident didn't really expose anything industry-wide like that. In fact, all of that stuff about production committee makeup, division of profits, and wages in the anime industry has been a relatively hot topic on the internet in Japan for months now, following a tv program that had a segment about the anime industry and showed a bunch of charts and graphs with all the details.