| Actors have union that sets wages and conditions, otherwise, a lot of actors would get paid $0. That's a lot like a regular union. Major League Sports have unions so that players can leverage their power vis-a-vis owners. It's a straight up power play vis-a-vis another group. While it's probably a net-zero outcome for society, it's rational for them to gang up. For both of those groups, it makes sense. It makes no sense at all for software developers - try to articulate a situation wherein that structure could be established and beneficial in the long run. If a 'Software Union' establishes accreditation for 'who can be a software developer' - then are 100% of scientists and lab techs doing research going to be forbidden from writing Python scripts? Forced to hire 'accredited' developers? That wouldn't work. Will the 'Software Union' establish minimum wages of say, $80/year and simply push all those jobs overseas? Will they limit the entry into the profession in order to create a supply/demand asymmetry? Everyone but a select few lose in that scenario. Software Developers are probably the least rational of all groups to start a union. There's literally zero point. None of the points articulated in the article will be materially improved with a union in place. The market for devs. works as well as it does for almost everything else. |