[orangecoffee]

What is the alternative

[vitaflo]

Start your own company. If you’re already doing everything yourself then you don’t need to do it for someone else.

[robocat]

Starting a company needs a lot more than those three skills. Plenty of people choose a pay packet with less stress.

Many founders recycle into tech jobs after they discover exactly why failure rates of startups are so brutal. Apparently 15-25% of employees aged 30–39 at major SV companies have a failed or acquihired startup in their history. Golden handcuffs can appear very pretty after you've missed out on striking gold by yourself.

[strange_quark]

Organized labor

[shaewest]

History has always been kind to inefficient systems organizing together for protection /s

[wiseowise]

Efficient system is when worker does work of 5 people for the same salary and CEO makes billions.

[shaewest]

I'm not arguing what defines inefficient in these situations, just that "if we group together we'll be okay" for tech workers will go about as well as 1960's longshoreman unionization

[darth_avocado]

Beatings will continue until morale improves