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Society owes engineers all of civilization. They built it. When I see engineers getting 200k what I see is society as it should be. The majority of wealth shoul
by kilgnad 4y ago
Society owes engineers all of civilization. They built it. When I see engineers getting 200k what I see is society as it should be. The majority of wealth should be distributed to the most skilled workers on the bottom. But even at 200k, this is not what is happening in tech companies.
The thing that nobody owes anything to is execs. Execs just tell engineers what to build.
The injustice that's going on here is just power dynamics that lets executives have unfair safety and engineers get fucked. The irony is that Engineers as a group they are 100000x more powerful then any exec, the issue is engineers don't operate from a place of central authority.
This is what unions are for. In times like this it's worth considering.
- pinewurst 4y agoHardly the engineers of Google’s ad empire.
- kilgnad 4y agoGoogle engineers changed the world.
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- ryloric 4y agoWhat? That's like arguing which one of the four wheels a car relies on the most... It's nonsense.
- kilgnad 4y agoBad analogy. The engineers are the four wheels, the execs are car paint. You remove the car paint, the car looks ugly. You remove the four wheels... you can't even call the thing a car anymore.