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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by cbHXBY1D on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @01:23PM (#24641181)
>I guess an other possibility would be to have proper unions but for some reason I don't see that happening in the USA any time soon...

I think this will happen sooner rather than later. As the market gets flooded with more and more engineers, tech workers will continue to get more and more proletarianized. Unionization will be the natural avenue for workers to get a slice of the pie.

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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by smsm42 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:59PM (#24644508)
I don't think people earning 5x-6x median wage, not counting stock incentives, are what Marx mean when he wrote about proletariat. Outside of Hollywood stars and top sportsmen, one would struggle to find a less oppressed category of workers.
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Re:Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortabl... by infamouscow on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:44PM (#24642154)
I wonder if that eventually leads the software industry into having professional licensing.
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