[bigtunacan]

It is possible to both understand why businesses operate the way they do and to sympathize with people who have lost their jobs as a result of how businesses operate.

If you really hate how businesses operate you have a couple of options. You can go work for a non-profit, a public university, or somewhere similar. They generally are lower stress, higher retention, but significantly less pay. That's the tradeoff.

You can unionize to get some worker protections, but of course this is Hacker News where no one wants to unionize because they think it's beneath them; nevermind that even film actors who make orders of magnitude more money have even unionized.

[listenallyall]

The vast, vast majority of actors in SAG make far less money than software developers. Only a small percentage earn enough to not require some other job.

Yes, famous actors get paid millions, they aren't really the people SAG is trying to protect.

[bigtunacan]

Most famous actors didn't start out that way so I would still argue it is.

It also doesn't change the fact that software engineers largely tend to be anti-union while simultaneously protesting things unions are designed to protect.

[savingsPossible]

Unionize and vote (if there is someone to vote, I don't think that is usually the case in the US)