How tech workers at Kickstarter formed one of the only unions in the industry

Post by alexland » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 10:59 PM UTC

refurb wrote: post #237

bhoessen wrote: post #221

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Because we don't have the same costs as in the US (university, healthcare, housing, ...). For instance, the cost to attend courses in a good university in Belgium is at most 835 euro/year [0]. (This does not include textbooks) In the EU, the market is much more fragmented because of the many languages we speak. [0] https://uclouvain.be/en/study/inscriptions/tuition-fees.html

Because we don't have the same costs as in the US Well, if you live in Vancouver you'll pay just as much as SF for housing, maybe half for university and I'll give you healthcare costs are minimal. But salaries are maybe 60% of SF. So I don't think it's that.

Post by Apocryphon » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 10:55 PM UTC

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The tech industry has a bias for youth, which is mutually exclusive with experience. I don't know much about the medical industry, but I wager surgeons face less ageism once the gray hairs start coming in. With that age comes experience younger surgeons simply couldn't have. Maybe that makes them better surgeons, or maybe not. But it seems to me that ageism in tech complicates comparisons to fields which value experi…

My point was that the OPPOSITE is true in most other fields. If you don't have grey hairs, you simply are not considered for the top jobs at all in certain industries. YOE (years of experience) is nearly everything for some professions, tech is surprisingly quite robust in that regard.