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I have no doubt there are some people here who have skills so hard to find that it can overcome in inherent power asymmetry between employers and workers, but t
by autoexec 3y ago
I have no doubt there are some people here who have skills so hard to find that it can overcome in inherent power asymmetry between employers and workers, but that isn't true for most workers, or even most tech workers.
However much we want to cling to the mythos left over from the days when just knowing HTML and a bit of JS meant you were a rock star coder guaranteed a life of endless riches, that's just not the world we live in and no amount of 10xing harder is going to stop companies from suppressing our wages and benefits while they increasingly outsource and wait for the AI that will absolutely replace most of us entirely or turn us into little more than QA for AI output.
- reactordev 3y agoI hate the term 10x for this very reason. You’re going to put 10 times the amount of effort vs what they pay you only to be let go in the next round of layoffs while the CEO gets a bigger bonus.
- wiml 3y agoI think that's a deep misunderstanding of "the 10× programmer". They produce 10× of the useful output, but they don't necessarily work that much harder.