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Individual actions won’t really lead to any societal change though. Your change won’t change your future jobs. You need worker solidarity at a large class leve

• sillysaurusx 4y ago
  Maybe. But (at least in the short term) we can make them pay for our obedience. You want me to come into the office? Fine, but you'd better be willing to double my salary, or I'm going to one of the other dozens of opportunities that don't require a commute. Out of all the different types of workers, devs have the most power. But we often don't exercise it. It's so tempting to just go along with whatever your work decides is best, because you've started to think of them as "your group." Once you identify as a part of a group, you're subjected to lots of peer pressure -- from yourself, no less.
  • ryandrake 4y ago
    Single devs acting in isolation don’t have any power over their $N billion employer with M hundreds of lawyers. unless they’re really specialized or brilliant like John Carmack or something. It doesn’t matter if you think of devs as “your group”. If you don’t act as a group, you get picked off. Devs as a coordinated bloc have a shot at power, working together.