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by FLUX-YOU
4319 days ago
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>as a class, we are downtrodden, disrespected, and disenfranchised? Oh, please. If any of you ever want to know what this actually feels like, take a job in retail, customer service, food prep, or low-level hospitality. There are many more jobs out of the limelight that are underpaid and under-respected (in the USA, which is my perspective) and take just as much of a toll on you as building a ridiculous system to please some suits to make the thingamajig do the fancy voodoo. Should engineers get more respect? That's a valid and fair question, and companies will pay more respect or start seeing loss when your core team leaves. But don't play this off like you're some kind of victim in life. At the very least this is just terrible word choice to describe the problem. |
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"You could do worse" is a rough straw-man in these scenarios.
I agree to that statement, but the cause of the outcry is rather interesting to observe, if only from an "anthropology of small tribes/startups" angle.
In particular that Engineers seem to be bound by "passion" and that this costs them from being economically rational.
When you equate economics to respect, then you get the message within the tech-crunch article.
The rationals beat the irrational players and that's pretty much the way the game is setup.