I've never been convinced that unions are necessarily the best approach to resolving the employer/employee power differential, but I do believe that in the comi

I've never been convinced that unions are necessarily the best approach to resolving the employer/employee power differential, but I do believe that in the coming decades something will be necessary. By luck, the explosive growth of software in the states and relative scarcity of developers has resulted in a lot of wealth and luxury for engineers. There's no reason to believe this trend will continue indefinitely. On the other side of the spectrum, another country that has explosive software growth but a large supply of engineers and STEM workers is China. China's 996 work policy has been getting a lot of attention lately and I think it should highlight the risk we face in a matter of maybe a generation or two if the software industry does eventually cool down.