Re:If high street shopping was like online shopping [video]
by onion2k on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:21AM
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I am not sure why people put developers on a morally high status like they are able to choose what kind of job that they can do...
I can't speak for other people, but personally I don't believe it's only developers who should leave jobs they feel are bad. Everyone who works in a job that's a net negative should strive to leave that job. The difference between a developer and a telemarketer is that the is a huge shortage of developers so it's not that hard to find a new role, and it's generally relatively well paid so having the resources to change job is much less of a problem, so any developer who stays in a job that's awful is clearly making a choice to do that.
FWIW I'm also an advocate of systems like UBI and negative income tax that would enable more people to make moral choices about the work they do.
I can't speak for other people, but personally I don't believe it's only developers who should leave jobs they feel are bad. Everyone who works in a job that's a net negative should strive to leave that job. The difference between a developer and a telemarketer is that the is a huge shortage of developers so it's not that hard to find a new role, and it's generally relatively well paid so having the resources to change job is much less of a problem, so any developer who stays in a job that's awful is clearly making a choice to do that.
FWIW I'm also an advocate of systems like UBI and negative income tax that would enable more people to make moral choices about the work they do.