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The statement: > The better our software gets, the more companies are able to hire. Good, well-paying, well-placed jobs results in happy people. That’s pretty
by altcognito 12y ago
The statement:
> The better our software gets, the more companies are able to hire. Good, well-paying, well-placed jobs results in happy people. That’s pretty rewarding, if you ask me.
is in direct conflict with what the market desires:
Market forces desire resources that labor that is mobile across the country, requires no long term commitment, has a low risk hiring and comes at minimum cost. I don't see how the market you are creating will serve labors need. Your goal is to turn labor pools into a commodity.
This is covered by the heading:
> “You better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone / For the times, they are a-changing” - Bob Dylan
But hey, you're touching lives.
- gaius 12y agoAlso see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9391711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9391711
- steamy 12y agoIt's been always like this for human labor throughout history and more specifically since the Agricultural Revolution. Human labor is always in surplus and this resource has been exploited by economic powers and interested parties in many ways from hardcore slavery to modern wage slavery but what changed recently was technology made it easier and more efficient to tap into this resource for anyone interested and thus this imbalance of power shifted in favor of the capitalists and business owners. It seems that most of the gains that we take for granted like weekends and paid vacations and so and so forth that the labor movement acquired over the years since the advent of socialism are up for grabs and at risk of evaporating altogether.