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> But what you fail to see I don't fail to see the point of the article, I just think it's wrong. > your employer has no incentive for maintaining your status
by RajT88 4y ago
> But what you fail to see
I don't fail to see the point of the article, I just think it's wrong.
> your employer has no incentive for maintaining your status in a different socio-economic class, and lots of incentives for changes that drive you, the exalted, mutually loved, always cooperative SWE into the same life+work situation as a supermarket shelf stocker.
Worker protections are good. So is being good at your job.
We can, and should, strive to have it both ways.
What's not good is disparaging people who don't have as prestigious a job as you. (And you are doing exactly that)
Even shelf stockers have basic human dignity; Don't be a dick.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago> Even shelf stockers have basic human dignity Sure, but no thanks to their employers. Are you telling me that you don't know anyone who doesn't actually like their job, and gets nothing from it except a paycheck? Because it certainly sounds that way.
- RajT88 4y agoI am certainly not saying that, but I am now sure that if you think that, that you probably didn't get my original post at all, and are unlikely to do so no matter how I explain it.