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by mmooss 540 days ago
Also the insane political risks and social instability, climate change, heightened risks of war and econmomic calamity, housing cost increase.
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All I want in life is a good union for software. Role finished this week, who needs me next week? Off I go.
The political instability, social instability, climate change, wars, and more will affect you whether or not you deny them.
Those are easier to cope with when you live in a supportive society. _Most_ humans naturally help each others in case of emergency. It’s easier when the framework is already in place.
People help each other in war? Catastophy? Sometimes they do, sometimes they definitely do not.
Yes they do [0].

[0] Poland's entire history.

Look up what people in Poland did to help Jewish Poles when the Nazis came in. Someone whose family was from a small town in Poland made a documentary about it maybe 10 years ago. Generations later people in the town were still covering up that their ancestors put the Jewish neighbors in a barn and set it on fire, and still strongly discouraging asking any questions. What happened to the property of the large Jewish population in Poland before the war?

People do help each other. Look what Denmark and Bulgaria did in the same situation.

How would a union help you move between roles? Or are you saying the opposite.
In the sense of how certain trade unions function as a hiring hall. Like a centralized job assignment. We already have a version of it except it's a million splintered hiring/recruitment agencies that may or may not be good. Lot's of time wasted.

Probably the wrong place to be barking up this tree though.

Most professional sports players are unionized and they move around all the time. :P

I hope we get a union with a draft and such.

This would rule. I would watch the FAANG draft.
Actually, anyone who want's to scratch this itch just youtube the Excel World Championships. It's way more entertaining than it has any business being.