> Following this logic, how do you feel about automated tests? Without those, there'd be a much larger market for manual testers then there is currently..
This is a great example
With automated tests, Manual QA positions are cut. Now the responsibility to write those tests falls on developers. Sometimes, rarely, there are automation QA people, but most places the tests are written by the devs in my experience
So the company is saving money on a bunch of salaries, the company captures the increased productivity that automated tests offer, executives get bigger bonuses, the investors get a nice bump, the individuals who now have extra responsibility get nothing
Maybe the overall developer market gets a higher salary, eventually, if you believe in the trickle down effect
> but you also want an equal share to those who have both put in work and taken on risk to create the company you work for
I don't expect to earn an equal share, but I do expect to benefit when the company does. This is more and more rare
> Which all kinda sounds like what you actually want is UBI, but only for you and your friends
You could not be further from the truth. People work harder for a smaller share every day. I just want that share to start growing, or at least stop shrinking.
I suppose yeah, failing that then I want to not to have to work as hard. I want some benefit from all of this so called productivity, instead of all of that going to rich people who lecture me about how much "risk" they take gambling some percent of their net worth that is more than I have made in my lifetime
So I actually agree with you on the social issues, but I really don't think targeting automation is the way forward.
If we want to work less, we need to automate more to make that even theoretically possible. The social situation of just a few people benefiting is orthogonal to the technology being used.
Which is why targeting specific tech in a fight for social justice is misguided, ineffective and probably even contraproductive.
This is a great example
With automated tests, Manual QA positions are cut. Now the responsibility to write those tests falls on developers. Sometimes, rarely, there are automation QA people, but most places the tests are written by the devs in my experience
So the company is saving money on a bunch of salaries, the company captures the increased productivity that automated tests offer, executives get bigger bonuses, the investors get a nice bump, the individuals who now have extra responsibility get nothing
Maybe the overall developer market gets a higher salary, eventually, if you believe in the trickle down effect
> but you also want an equal share to those who have both put in work and taken on risk to create the company you work for
I don't expect to earn an equal share, but I do expect to benefit when the company does. This is more and more rare
> Which all kinda sounds like what you actually want is UBI, but only for you and your friends
You could not be further from the truth. People work harder for a smaller share every day. I just want that share to start growing, or at least stop shrinking.
I suppose yeah, failing that then I want to not to have to work as hard. I want some benefit from all of this so called productivity, instead of all of that going to rich people who lecture me about how much "risk" they take gambling some percent of their net worth that is more than I have made in my lifetime