At the object level, I don't agree that increasing the number of engineers results in reduced compensation for engineers, because the amount of value created by software is materially non-static. I think it will plausibly be tens of percent of the broader economy.
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This implies an orientation of a variety of people from their current positions or, in the case of folks not in careers yet, their hypothetical positions in a non-software world, towards careers in software. This feels both useful and just; software is a great place to be.
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At the moral level: A guild or union represents the interests of current (and maybe past) members. I am not a member of a guild or union of engineers. I am a happy member of the clade/tribe/community/etc of software people. Aspirants *are my people*; I care about their outcomes.
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Also, if you want to model me as a profit-maximizing capitalist you're going to make a lot of modeling errors, but if you persist in doing that at least model me as a capitalist correctly: I am almost certainly a net buyer rather than seller of engineering labor over my lifetime.
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Besides being horrendously zero sum, it's morally horrific. By that logic, should oncologists sabotage their cancer research because it might harm their future career prospects?
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That’s rhetorical but that is basically the purpose of the AMA and occupational licensing writ large. The US medical system is (broadly speaking) a barbaric, violent cult of incompetence and impunity.
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More engineers means more people making companies meaning more jobs.
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More than most professions, engineers create the need for more engineers. After all most of the work we do today is built on the output of a few innovators.
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That aside it’s a bit like people saying my tweet is an attempt to manipulate the stock price of a $100b company. Would like to know where I can actually get that kind of influence!
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This makes so many assumptions that are clearly untrue. The two biggies seem to be a fixed pie size for “engineering work”, combined with some idea that the supply of engineers is already approaching the demand for them. I suspect
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