It’s not always a great idea to cover political stories that exist entirely on social media. You can end up focused on narratives and disputes that unfold largely among the most online subset of…
the number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low. Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win.
JFC. First of all, I hate the sports analogies when it comes to corporate bullshit-speak. The only thing that is worse is saying “we are like a family”. Secondly, at least in sports, even if the owners make far, far more, at least top talent is compensated to some degree.
The problem the moneyed class has is, and it really, really annoys them, is that they have to compensate top talent that actually do something, not just the executives. And man, the idea of disrupting their corporate caste system annoys them no end.
THIS is why they do all kinds of things to try to break engineers’ spirit and trying to keep them from getting too uppity. They collude, and have “gentlemen agreements” to not poach talent from one another. They set salary ranges. The collude with government on programs like H1B. They collude with government to offshore jobs to the lowest cost of living/most desperate countries they can…
God fucking forbid that “top talent” get FUCKING PAID like an executive. That would start puncturing the illusion that the wizards in mahogany row are the real creators of wealth.
To bad a good bit of tech engineers see themselves as rugged individuals, who are an eventual executives and are essential to the companies they work for. So they do nothing to help other workers because the they that would be “hurting themselves”.
JFC. First of all, I hate the sports analogies when it comes to corporate bullshit-speak. The only thing that is worse is saying “we are like a family”. Secondly, at least in sports, even if the owners make far, far more, at least top talent is compensated to some degree.
The problem the moneyed class has is, and it really, really annoys them, is that they have to compensate top talent that actually do something, not just the executives. And man, the idea of disrupting their corporate caste system annoys them no end.
THIS is why they do all kinds of things to try to break engineers’ spirit and trying to keep them from getting too uppity. They collude, and have “gentlemen agreements” to not poach talent from one another. They set salary ranges. The collude with government on programs like H1B. They collude with government to offshore jobs to the lowest cost of living/most desperate countries they can…
God fucking forbid that “top talent” get FUCKING PAID like an executive. That would start puncturing the illusion that the wizards in mahogany row are the real creators of wealth.
To bad a good bit of tech engineers see themselves as rugged individuals, who are an eventual executives and are essential to the companies they work for. So they do nothing to help other workers because the they that would be “hurting themselves”.
Yep, you touched on this. Lots of super talented engineers who are also super motivated to work: Provided the pay is commensurate, which it never is.