quinequine

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by quinequine 10y ago
Yeah, I see what you're saying. Developers like most people are motivated by self-interest and have little motivation to see change in the status quo. With regards to advocacy, it's much easier to cut a check to the EFF (or simila
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by quinequine 10y ago
Good point but you misunderstood my argument. It's in the interests of corporations to push up supply and if you look they are doing just that. My concern is that without a counterbalance of developers advocating in the interest of the
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by quinequine 10y ago
I completely understand. How do you feel about collective bargaining in general? Consider a case where let's say the founder of an extremely successful yet 50 person software company sells the company for an ungodly sum ($250mil+) to C
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by quinequine 10y ago
Ehh, there's a reason I started the thread off with "not your Dad or Grandma's union". :) Why can't there be another way than the way our grandparents' unionized?
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by quinequine 10y ago
You're right. Most developers could care less about anything that doesn't impact their daily working life. But I would argue that issues like wage suppression, security, and privacy have a huge impact on our work-life balance, inc
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by quinequine 10y ago
You're right. Most developers don't care about these sort of issues. No need to unionize if you don't care about effecting change. And when you do, just send a donation and call it a day.
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by quinequine 10y ago
Depends on where you're at, right? You'll find tons of developers on Upwork willing to work for less. Isn't that the future for most of us? We're tomorrow's factory workers. Corporations have already shown that they
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Ask HN: Why don't developers unionize?
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