no matter how esoteric or incomprehensible our politics get, we'll never beat top quint income bracket tech workers pushing for unionization
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What I've seen of "tech solidarity" is mostly about collective power to e.g. stop dark patterns; fund free software; protect net; etc
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this is more the role of professional organizations such as those that exist for doctors or lawyers
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especially arguments about eg preventing adtech from being repurposed for government surveillance or border control
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these sorts of orgs have very thorough codes of ethics and largely exist to protect the profession for its practitioners
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whereas unions are largely about securing more favorable working conditions
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the flip side of professional orgs is they are intensely exclusionary since their role is to maintain field prestige
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so if/when such a thing happens to programming it would mean pervasive mandatory credentialism, which I despise
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it will happen sooner or later, probably after a series of high-profile software-related deaths, but I'd prefer later
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You're implying money is the only thing union's accomplish. How about better work-life balance?
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