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That sounds good, but in practice, such organization will amount to the destruction of the meritocracy and the elevation of a certain set of political views to
by quotemstr 9y ago
That sounds good, but in practice, such organization will amount to the destruction of the meritocracy and the elevation of a certain set of political views to the status of job requirements.
A tech union would, I think, inevitably devolve to the kind of organization that denies the existence of skill differentials.
- the_good_matty 9y agoYou say this as if tech is currently a meritocracy.
- quotemstr 9y agoIt's closer to a meritocracy than practically any other field. I firmly reject the postmodern war on quality and the dismissal of merit as an illusion or a form of oppression. Impact matters.
- tptacek 9y agoThis is a field that in 2017 still deploys vast amounts of new PHP code, and in which the most successful new database offering of the last 5 years has been MongoDB. You've got a very tough row to hoe to support the argument that it's a "meritocracy".
- kevinburke 9y agoGoogle recently settled a lawsuit with its engineers for $410 million, for colluding with other tech companies to keep engineering wages down. It's currently under investigation from the Department of Labor to determine whether they are giving equal pay for equal work. I don't think the meritocracy you describe currently exists.
- jubalfh 9y agothere is no such thing as meritocracy