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Someone doing work with no business value for another party doesn't make much sense to me. Sure perhaps it benefits the worker in some way. Perhaps he learns th
by bugsy 16y ago
Someone doing work with no business value for another party doesn't make much sense to me. Sure perhaps it benefits the worker in some way. Perhaps he learns the value of coming to work on time and obeying arbitrary orders to do work that everyone agrees is useless and unneeded (which is the premise you have made - I am presuming it for the sake of argument here). I postulate though that it would be even more valuable experience to do work that everyone agrees is useful and needed. It's not like there is a shortage of that. In development, there's tons of valuable software that needs to be written. The state of practice in this industry is quite poor, especially of much corporate produced software titles compared to indie releases. Why not write valuable software instead of useless when there is so much valuable software to write? Writing useless software for the purpose of experience seems a not optimal choice when one could just as easily write useful valuable software.
And now, given that one is writing useful valuable software that is of benefit to others, of course the developer should be paid for their work.
- phamilton 16y agoyes but is that true in journalism? (The topic Mark Cuban is discussing) Software development is unique in that there are no real barriers to entry. Rather than take an unpaid internship writing code, I can write code at home. But what he wants to provide to aspiring journalists is a space in the locker room after games, access to practices, players and coaches, etc. That's very different. Also, the premise wasn't useless and unneeded. It was not financially viable. In Cuban's article, he mentions plenty of reasons why it would be useful. But they aren't enough to justify the cost of starting such a project.