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by btheshoe 1123 days ago
the nba player's association has secured nba players a nice share of revenue. seems to me like engineers could do something similar.
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refurb 1123 days ago
If you're one of a dozen engineers in the world who can do what you do, then sure, you can get a similar piece of the pie as NBA players.

But most tech workers aren't like that. They are relatively easily replaceable in comparison.

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janalsncm 1122 days ago
If US tech workers could be replaced for a tenth of the compensation they would’ve been. Maybe that will change in the future but until then the fact that there is some scarcity means unionization is possible.
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refurb 1122 days ago
Who said anything about a tenth of the wages?

There are plenty of US programmers making way less than FAANG wages happy to take those jobs.

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