it’ll cost 16,000 jobs

wonder when software devs will get serious about unionizing

this will never happen in the current landscape; it’s controlled by libertarian & neoliberal people who detest collectivism in all of its forms.

and toxically so, my psychological well being has improve dramatically ever since leaving the field.

I really think it’ll depend on how bad the employment situation gets. At some point people are going to start realizing they’re not temporarily inconvenienced billionaires, and that their interests aren’t aligned with the oligarchs. Software devs have been largely insulated from general economic problems until recently. Getting a job has been relatively easy, the pay was way above what most people make, and that fed individualistic behavior. Now that jobs are becoming scarce, and there’s a huge pool of laid off workers, people are starting to get concerned.

those conditions describe the entirety of the united states and, yet, unionization is still abysmally weak.

and i would expect that an entire field whose members have prided themselves on anti-collectivization would be less apt to adopt a union than any other field.

I guess we’ll see, but I do think people will start adapting to their new reality out of necessity.

to be fair: i agree that it will happen eventually, but it’ll come at a time after the americans vote out their political duopoly like the mexicans did to their duopoly back in 2018.