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Unions can make sense for certain industries, namely factory work. Where it's hard to own the means of production, and workers are largely uniform in output, lo
by steelstraw 5y ago
Unions can make sense for certain industries, namely factory work. Where it's hard to own the means of production, and workers are largely uniform in output, low pay and don't have much leverage.
Unions don't make sense in tech because everyone owns the means of production (a computer) and have widely different levels of output. 10x engineers are a thing. Plus tech workers have high leverage, high pay (top 5%? 1%?), can easily get a new job, or can start their own tech company by themselves with their laptop.
Trying to enforce a union structure in tech is counterproductive, extractive and entirely unnecessary.
- lovich 5y agoIn tech all that extra power individual workers have just means that multiple companies need to band together to suppress wages. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-apple-wage-suppression_n_2294131 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-apple-wage-suppression...