the problem is that even if you convince 5 million people to join your union and raise your wages, the other 295 million people in the country are then gonna take the opportunity to undercut you, which leads you to be fired as “too expensive” and other people to take your job.
It’s more likely that a scientist invented it than an average coder.
As a coder myself, I can say: we as a group need to learn to say no more often.
You’re fired. We’ll just hire someone from India for $0.03 a week.
We can dream about getting billions of people to all agree to stop undercutting each other. It’s a nice dream
the problem is that even if you convince 5 million people to join your union and raise your wages, the other 295 million people in the country are then gonna take the opportunity to undercut you, which leads you to be fired as “too expensive” and other people to take your job.
The conditioning is working. Don’t unionize.