The financial incentive for these companies to automate or offshore programming jobs is getting very high. People who think Googlers or others have nothing to unionize about because their jobs are so cushy should consider that status quo from the perspective of managementhttps://twitter.com/schlaf/status/1187409292212748290 …
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The world is a very big place full of smart people who can fix bugs in AdSense at less than a $500K/year salary.
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This is a great point. We have a young workforce and the last real sag in tech hiring ended back in '02 (even '08 didn't hit us hard). The tech giants won't tolerate having to bake Bay Area housing costs into salaries once they miss a few earnings targets https://twitter.com/jhripley/status/1187413678703824897 …
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Tech workers are basically longshoremen right before containerization hit, except the longshoremen had a union. [Insert Docker joke here]
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ARGUMENT: Tech workers don't need a union, because they have the cushiest, best-paying jobs in the world COUNTERARGUMENT: Tech workers need a union, because they have the cushiest, best-paying jobs in the world
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It's an interesting question whether some combination of American universities/San Francisco weather/US startup law/aggregation effects can keep Silicon Valley from being ported somewhere cheaper in the long term
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