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> The problem though, is that it's so easy to get into, so there's no easy way to "police" ourselves, because tech has been democratized so well-- Anyone can do
by msla 8y ago
> The problem though, is that it's so easy to get into, so there's no easy way to "police" ourselves, because tech has been democratized so well-- Anyone can do a code boot-camp and be up and running within weeks. Not that that's a bad thing, it just makes it harder to hold developers to a code of ethics or anything like that...
Moreover, "coding" is a cross-cutting concern in that a lot of people who aren't formally programmers have been sold on the idea of being able to automate parts of their job by writing code, and I'm not sure how you'd yoke all of those disparate fields (especially academics outside of industry) into a single labor organization.
- walshemj 8y agoWhy large Unions represent a diverse set of members take Prospect (UK) which represents people in a very diverse set of industry's.
- dmix 8y agoHow has Prospect helped the wider world related to their work? Which I believe is what this article is about, not workers rights. (Genuine question) Wikipedia says it’s a trade union for “scientists, managers, and engineers” with 140k members across quite a few industries. No mention of what they actually do though.
- walshemj 8y agoIt was about combining divergent technical professionals together. And the previous president Denise was also president of Uni which acts to support workers world wide eg the rights of garment workers and also supporting the victimised organisers of the google walkout.
- stale2002 8y agoTo give an analogy, I as an engineer need to write a lot of documents sometimes, but nobody in their right mind would suggest that I should be forced to join the writers guild, in order to be allowed to write an essay. The same thing applies to coding.
- walshemj 8y agoWhy would you?