This is good. I probably won't bother engaging with people who disagree. Also going to say to the "i can organize a better deal myself" types. Google and other

This is good. I probably won't bother engaging with people who disagree. Also going to say to the "i can organize a better deal myself" types. Google and other companies with a combined market cap of trillions spent years illegally conspiring to keep you wages lower. You can't compete with that. The current situation is an artifact of extreme demand. We already have worse protections than the average worker. When things start to turn they will get bad. I want proper overtime laws and proper pay for oncall. If you work overtime or oncall for a salary, factor that in and then recalculate your hourly rate. Not as great. The games industry is a good example of the future of tech. They have a surplus of workers and they routinely treat them like garbage. This is after years of negative publicity and pushback. That's what it took to even get things improved to the point where spouses aren't writing open letters to EA about how awful their conditions are.