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Software developers are already highly paid with lots of perks. Do they need unions?
Not that I agree with it, but that's an argument.
Software developers are already highly paid with lots of perks. Do they need unions?
Software developers are already highly paid with lots of perks. Do they need unions?
Those of us commenting here today may not be around to see it happen, but I believe it will happen eventually.
For now things are good. We got lucky and we found ourselves in a relatively new profession that not a lot of people are trained in and we're making good money (and some of us don't even have college degrees)
Software developers are already highly paid with lots of perks. Do they need unions?
I think the argument goes: We make table scraps compared to the amount that a corporation rakes in. Yet we're the sole reason they're able to rake in that amount of money. Not that I agree with it, but that's an argument.
On the contrary, if you're actively making something (burgers, computers) then you're usually not paid enough to actually consume those things on a regular schedule. I think that's a symptom of an emergent caste system.
Ironic that the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos.
Why is this ironic? Jeff Bezos doesn't have time to micromanage all of his enterprises. It's also likely that some individual writers and editors at the Washington Post disagree with Jeff Bezos on nearly everything. These are managed by people who do have time to micromanage if they choose, but these managers are optimizing for more local goals such as making the Washington Post profitable, not large-scale goals like…
The WaPo would implode if (many) people thought Bezos was coloring the editorial decisions of the paper to such an extent that such an opinion piece was discarded.
Countries are best off that empower their people: the individual citizens.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe Larry Summers just wrote this for the newspaper and having influential people like Summers on the bylines is good, regardless of what he writes? Why does it have to be a political thing for every op-ed writing? Bezos isn't hand-approving every single post.
> Why does it have to be a political thing for every op-ed writing? You're right, but most media companies in the US pretty much act as spokespeople for one political wing or another. They are all generally very biased towards the direction of their donors or owners. I also find it interesting that no(or few) major media outlets were so against big business until this recent election cycle. Why else would the recent…
Yes, I agree with that. But Larry Summers' article would have been welcome anywhere, probably even Fox News. He is accomplished like few others, and having him write for you is good no matter what. It is important to separate the cases indivdually.
>>I also find it interesting that no(or few) major media outlets were so against big business until this recent election cycle.
Cases like Uber help for sure, and the income gap is ever-widening. I think it's just a natural state of being. It couldn't last forever. An opinion of a significant number of Americans was that HRC/Trump offered us no real alternative in regards to labor/business reform, and the media is playing that up after the fact.
I don't think there is anything nefarious going on or anyone trying to get on the right side of history. I think in large part the media is reflecting what most Americans are feeling right now: Malaise.
(For the record I am upvoting you, I have no idea who is downvoting your posts.)