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Instead of begging to be exploited by billionaires, yob could band together with your fellow tech workers and win better treatment for all of us.


What? These people have lives better than 99% of the population.


So do medical doctors; and they've preserved that status by unionizing to protect it.


Medical doctors spend a lot of time and money in med school and residency. They have malpractice risk, and perform more essential work like saving lives and improving people’s health, your health. Working a hospital especially in the ED is stressful. No stock options, rsu grants.

Tech workers on the other hand, say engineers, can easily get a high paying FAANG job without a 4yr degree - just spending time grinding leetcode or a coding bootcamp. Not to mention the RSUs, office perks like free lunches, WFH, on site laundry and daycare, flexible time off, no set work hours… come on


> Tech workers on the other hand, say engineers, can easily get a high paying FAANG job without a 4yr degree

It is prima facie absurd to say that tech workers can "easily" get a job at FAANG; if it were that easy to work at FAANG surely the 50%[0] of Software Engineers who make less than $121k or 75%[0] of Software Engineers who make less than $152k would simply do so.

[0]: https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...


Did you just make things up?

There are people who work at FAANG without a degree, but that's the absolute minority. Most people have spent years on a formal education, many of which have a master's or even PhDs.


> office perks like free lunches, WFH, on site laundry and daycare

WFH perks like lunch, laundry, and daycare.




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