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IMHO, if we are more united and concerned about our professions as a whole. We'd organize to have professional licensing boards to artificially limit the suppl
by noname123 11y ago
IMHO, if we are more united and concerned about our professions as a whole.
We'd organize to have professional licensing boards to artificially limit the supply of "licensed" coders and raise wages (e.g., American Medical Association that regulate MCAT/MLE Step exams, State Boards that administer bar exams etc, PE/professional engineer licenses).
But I'd like to consider coders as less calculating and more socialist that allows people from non-traditional backgrounds make the effort to join the ranks; and also heed to its "blue collar" technical roots than try to aspire to be elitist like doctors or lawyers.
- jazzyk 11y agoThis. Limit the supply based on skills/qualifications, not who your Daddy played golf with (as it often happens in blue-blood law firms).
- LyndsySimon 11y ago> I'd like to consider coders as less calculating and more socialist Heh. I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and I'm vehemently opposed to unionization.
- skwosh 11y agoLicensing etc feels like it would work with the larger and more homogeneous parts of the industry (creating a more fungible work force). Outside of that environment, technology varies so much between companies, and changes so much over time that licensing around certain technological stacks/skills seems naïve. I'm not sure it's that easy to quantify the (more) important and transferable skills like abstract thinking, project estimation, team work, being able to learn quickly, etc. Coding is closer to an art (like journeyman carpentry) than a discipline (like engineering), and therefore better judged on reputation, portfolio, etc, criteria that the industry already embodies. /imo