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project2501a | 3 days ago

> but I'm not sure I know another path of life.

Unionize.

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raw_anon_1111|3 days ago

So exactly what will the magic of unionization do when any company can hire developers from LatAm (much easier to deal with in the same time zone) that are good enough enterprise devs for half the price?

project2501a|3 days ago

block the hiring.

dfadsadsf|3 days ago

If we unionize, will I still be paid $500k with four years of experience?

vineyardmike|2 days ago

Yes. This is still possible.

Not all unions look the same. There are unions that don’t prescribe pay to the company, leaving the company to compete for talent using salary.

shimman|3 days ago

Why should tech workers care about the small minority of tech workers that make obscene amounts of money? The median dev salary in the US is ~$130k. [1]

Besides that point, I would very much like to get paid over time for being on call. I would very much like a preplanned process that comes to layoffs rather than firing people at random. I would like paid paternity leave.

Always a classic HN post about the rockstar dev willing to fuck over their fellow workers so they can make a quick buck then feign upset over how meaningless their lives are because they devote so much time making capitalists more capital rather than bettering their community.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...