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If you think professional sports leagues and the movie business base opportunities and compensation on seniority I don't know what to tell you. Those fields are

by CPLX 6y ago

If you think professional sports leagues and the movie business base opportunities and compensation on seniority I don't know what to tell you. Those fields are almost completely unionized. There's no obvious reason to think that the market for high skilled technical workers would be substantially different.

missedthecue 6y ago
If you don't think the UAW or ILWU bases opportunities and compensation on seniority I don't know what to tell you
- Apocryphon 6y ago
  Why would an SWE union be forced to follow the trends set by other unions? I thought tech was supposed to march to the beat of its own drum. Think different.
- CPLX 6y ago
  Of course they do. The difference is between commodity labor and creative, talent-driven, or IP based production, and it seems clear which is a better metaphor for software engineers.