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hot take: software people are going to regret not unionizing when we could

I've had this thought on a number of occasions for the past decade, but I don't know that there was a "could" because of the coordination problem. Why would you try to unionize when you're well paid and working conditions are good?

Erik

@rekmarks.com

"The good times ain't gonna last" doesn't get enough people off their asses when the times are in fact good. Not to mention how so many software people are temporarily embarrassed billionaires.

1/10/26, 3:41 am0 reposts6 likes

Bumblefudge

@bumblefudge.com

Painkillers vs vitamins. And the temporarily embarrassment might even have been a GOAL (not a side effect) of all the entrepreneurship theater we refer to as "YCombi"-style "venture capital" business modeling. Deluding the yeomen is one hell of an accelerant if feudalism is where you're headed