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It's interesting how many successful, creative people seem to be incapable at imagining themselves not being so successful one day. What you perform well at to

• perl4ever 6y ago
  Most people don't find it reasonable to sabotage yourself based on the belief that things could be and probably will be worse some day. If some people do, then they inherently tend to get marginalized. My dad was an engineer who I was told tried to organize a vote to form a union at GE pre-Jack Welch. It failed, but was close. Probably over 30 years after he died it occurred to me that might have something to do with why he retired early. I always figured any company that has a union deserves it - but that doesn't mean I want to be a part of a company where management and labor has that bad of a relationship. Now I belong to a public sector union - and everybody hates those - so I tend to take a nuanced perspective, but there are some mundane drawbacks. For instance, before covid, work-from-home was pretty restricted, and because the exact amount and rules were in the contract, it wasn't easy to change.
• marcinzm 6y ago
  So you're advocating for a union that pays a premium for those employees who have seniority but whose skills are no longer in much demand? At the cost of salary for those whose skills have remained in demand or who have kept up to date with trends? After all, otherwise what advantage does a a union have in your scenario? I doubt many well performing SEs would be happy to have coworkers like that in the future. The ones worried about future marketability have many options including saving a lager percentage of income, investing money in passive income sources, moving into management, etc.