Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer
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Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer
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#2> So if we need to work long hours, what can we do to recover?
Not work long hours? This is what unions are for (now, if we could just have one without dues/political contributions).
Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer
#3> So if we need to work long hours, what can we do to recover? Not work long hours? This is what unions are for (now, if we could just have one without dues/political contributions).
Dues are fine, someone needs to pay for the people who manage the union (Bernie Sanders contributions could be considered dues for those who believe in his causes, me included). I agree that political contributions should be prohibited though (as well as corporate political contributions).
Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer
#4Some are missing the point, most of the work we as software developers does not need long hours but deep focus. The best of the best are able to have 4 hours worth of deep focus, and we are lucky to get an hour or two of it. That would be huge. So the good habits that help us with focus and emphasizes on recovery like walking in the woods (our natural habitat), meditation etc. Its not the time, the hardware of brain is pretty much fixed, its the software, habits and mindset that make the difference.
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#5> So if we need to work long hours, what can we do to recover? Not work long hours? This is what unions are for (now, if we could just have one without dues/political contributions).
Dues are fine, someone needs to pay for the people who manage the union (Bernie Sanders contributions could be considered dues for those who believe in his causes, me included). I agree that political contributions should be prohibited though (as well as corporate political contributions).
Political contributions are how the current labor laws came into being.
Abuse of said political contributions are another (but important) matter.
Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer
#6> So if we need to work long hours, what can we do to recover? Not work long hours? This is what unions are for (now, if we could just have one without dues/political contributions).
Dues are how you pay the folks who are spending their time working for your rights. Lawyers, administrative assistants, marketing... these are not cheap.
Abuses aside, you don't get the positive - that is someone fighting for your rights - for free, and without playing in the field of politics.
Re: Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dues are fine, someone needs to pay for the people who manage the union (Bernie Sanders contributions could be considered dues for those who believe in his causes, me included). I agree that political contributions should be prohibited though (as well as corporate political contributions).
Political contributions are how the current labor laws came into being. Abuse of said political contributions are another (but important) matter.
Lobbying and political contributions are two different things.
Funding is important, as we've seen with the Sanders' campaign, but grassroots efforts equally (if not more) so.
I think funding is the smaller of the problem: unions, labor, regular people need better tools to organize and hold their representatives (either government or union) accountable.
EDIT: If you're looking for a problem to solve, help build these better tools. Help people be represented!
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#8Overworked?
Everyone is overworked. We live in a post scarcity industrial world, or very very close to it, and bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.
How much of the entire economy is predicated on grey money? How much of your time is indirectly consumed by this leviathan?
The more I think about it, the more i want to opt out of the entire fucking thing.
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#9> So if we need to work long hours, what can we do to recover? Not work long hours? This is what unions are for (now, if we could just have one without dues/political contributions).
I've long been a proponent for hackers to "disrupt" labor by reinventing unions. (And call them guilds, because hey it's a name that works on multiple levels).
On the subject of dues being required to pay for full-time guild leaders as brought up in the sibling comments, that makes sense. But could it be supplemented by crowdfunding and alternate pay models, instead of mandating a set price? Tiered membership? Freemium guilds? Free 2 Protest?
On a less semi-satirical level about startups, hackers already voluntarily contribute willingly to non-profit endeavors, namely open source projects, and sometimes causes such as Wikipedia/Wikimedia, the Internet Archive, even tech-related lobbying like the EFF, etc. Surely some could put that same spirit of voluntarism towards supporting their labor class.
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#10> So if we need to work long hours, what can we do to recover? Not work long hours? This is what unions are for (now, if we could just have one without dues/political contributions).
Your not going to remove the need to engage in the political process.