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Programmers need to Unionize!

• thundergolfer 7y ago
  A fair response to those focusing on labour market dynamics. If you look at the profits generated per employee at top companies there’s plenty of room for engineers to capture more and more of the pie. Similar things are going on in startups these days. Early employees are getting screwed even in cases where their startup is hugely successful. In those cases there’s opportunity for enormous increases in compensation for engineers if better bargaining means the founders and particularly the VCs take less.