theories: a) realize they're the bourgeoisie, believe the end of capitalism is inevitable, trying to signal their way out of the guillotine
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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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The thing is: our professionals suck. None of us know what we're doing. Pretending some have the perfect answers would not be good now.
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yea a big reason the field is as anti-credentialist as it is is because existing credentials have no predictive value
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Engineers in Denmark don't have a union, we have @IngeniorIDA , the Engineering Association of Denmark and it is a far superior arrangement.
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They provide basically all of the advantages of a union with exactly none of the bullshit. It's amazing.
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