I think we should talk more about the clear success of software engineering as a high-skill profession with virtually no gatekeeping — why & how that’s working, etc.
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Something I don't understand well: how software has resisted the enormous pressure for occupational licensing. E.g.: (from https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/THP_KleinerDiscPaper_final.pdf … ) Is it that BigCos don't want it, and can resist? Or something else?pic.twitter.com/29CnzlPSUf
Uninformed theory: a combo of (a) software engineers are generally satisfied w/ their working conditions & salaries to the extent that they don't organize much & (b) software companies are powerful enough to prevent regulation & still careful to maintain (a) bc talent is so vital
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Implicit seems to be the idea that unions (or similar organizations) are behind the drive for occupational licensing. Is that right? It seems plausible: such licensing is a barrier to entry which protects people already inside.
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My intuition, semi-informed, is that that's often the driver
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Performance for a SE seems way easier to measure than most professions, though.
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re (a) I had the impression the relatively better-off professions and trades were quicker to unionize, though I don't really know the history. I guess programmer culture & introversion are more against it. (There was a bit of fear of overseas outsourcing for a while in 2000s.)
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I could see things changing after a major computer-security disaster or enough continuation of anti-general-computation trends; harder to see programmer culture evolving that way on its own.
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