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>A tightening of the ability for people to start new companies will mean fewer choices in employers down the line, and it will mean less diversity in work environments, cultures, types of work, etc. All of that works actively against you. This is getting strange: employees have too much power, and so they will have less power? In this dark future, what is to stop Joe Dev and his four friends from starting a company while living on the piles of money they've stacked up? Further, in said dark future where only the corporate moguls survive and have beaten-down developers shackled to their cubicles, why do the moguls continue paying through the nose? If they have so much power over developers, don't they as soon as possible cut developer salaries, allowing smaller companies to woo them away? >Equity isn't magic. The amount of equity you have to give to make a $10K discount on salary make sense is a lot. I can only conclude that either developers are being exploited or that we're in a bubble, then, because VC's make that exact money-for-equity trade. >As is often the case, the common good is good for you because - surprise - you don't exist in a vacuum from the rest of society. I would take this much more seriously if there were a Developers' Union that served to erect barriers to entry. But in fact, there's the exact opposite, with bootcamps, Khan Academy, open-source tools, blogs, and people getting jobs without degrees. I have a hard time conceiving of a less jealous profession. |