Employees are ALWAYS commodities. These issues are not new. This is exactly the same labor vs. capital struggle that has happened, well, forever. Companies exi

Employees are ALWAYS commodities. These issues are not new. This is exactly the same labor vs. capital struggle that has happened, well, forever. Companies exist to run business processes that create money. Employees are an input to that process. Employers only care about employees to the extent that the employees help that process run efficiently. Expect these things to become ever more apparent as more and more complex work becomes commoditized. Remember when you could make real money as a Wordpress developer? Now a person who wants a website (if they still want a website and not an Etsy / Amazon / Facebook / whatever presence) should really just sign up with Square Space. The market needs products & services... employees are a by product.