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“Join our guild so we can punish you”

• mathgladiator 3y ago
  "Join our guild, make 10x, but there is a responsibility"
• OkayPhysicist 3y ago
  The point of professional livensure is gaining the leverage to hold yourself hostage. Boss tells unlicensed employee to do something evil: employee weighs "do the right thing, and need to find a new job" vs "do the evil thing". Boss tells a licensed employee to do something evil: employee weighs "do the right thing, and (maybe) need to find a new job" vs "do the evil thing, and maybe lose the ability to work in my field". That's leverage to bring to your boss. "I cannot approve this, because it's evil, and approving this would get any professional stripped of their license". That puts your boss in a hot seat because now the scales are being tipped for him, worried that even if he fired you, he wouldn't be able to find anybody who would rubber stamp the evil thing.
  • strawhatguy 3y ago
    No, the real point of guilds or licensure is to constrain the supply of those that work in the profession, generally to inflate salaries. Licenses sound good in theory but often that just means you get more "inside the box" thinking (the kind of thinking that helps on the license/guild exams), and innovation will suffer. Would we be better off if the programming industry simply used, say C, for everything since the 70s? Some things might be better, but we'd have far less and less varied of it, I'd wager. EDIT: I assumed guilds/licenses here are mandated (which is what a guild that issues licenses often wants to do). If licenses can be ignored, it's less of an issue.
• xethos 3y ago
  "Join our guild because we know you're top-tier and we can collectively keep the hacks from calling themselves your equal"