Secessio plebis
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Secessio plebis
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#2Uh yeah.. cool? What makes it relevant for HN?
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#3Uh yeah.. cool? What makes it relevant for HN?
There's a long tradition on HN of people posting unexpected Wikipedia submissions for intellectual curiosity.
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#4Power to the people!
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#5Uh yeah.. cool? What makes it relevant for HN?
What is relevant for HN?
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#6If only SW engineer "plebs" could band together and strike to demand recognition of their profession like doctors and lawyer
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#7If only SW engineer "plebs" could band together and strike to demand recognition of their profession like doctors and lawyer
Yeah, it is interesting how that didn't happen at Theranos or Google (with the "killer drones" recently). For the former case, I'd like to refer to the book Bad Blood. For the latter, 12 people from Google resigned over that issue. The massive privacy issues occurring, Uber debacle, NSA debacle, or how about Microsoft in the '90s? IBM before that? I guess the tech sector workers get divide & conqueror-ed.
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#8If only SW engineer "plebs" could band together and strike to demand recognition of their profession like doctors and lawyer
Yeah, it is interesting how that didn't happen at Theranos or Google (with the "killer drones" recently). For the former case, I'd like to refer to the book Bad Blood. For the latter, 12 people from Google resigned over that issue. The massive privacy issues occurring, Uber debacle, NSA debacle, or how about Microsoft in the '90s? IBM before that? I guess the tech sector workers get divide & conqueror-ed.
Which is exactly what happened to the plebians. They spent a couple centuries periodically having these revolts, and eventually they ended up "represented by" a few rich plebian families more tied to the patricians than to their supposed class, while pretty much nothing changed for the actual common people.
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#9Uh yeah.. cool? What makes it relevant for HN?
Better than posting about the meme language or JS framework of the week.
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#10If only SW engineer "plebs" could band together and strike to demand recognition of their profession like doctors and lawyer
Why? I mean I understand it's always better to get more than less, but software developers are closer to the top than to the bottom.