Re:Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips
by P_I_Staker on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:39PM
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No, I was objecting to you saying the job is "easy", which is absolutely wrong and insulting. Also, I simply disagree that these jobs are "low value", ie "I don't want a world without servers". That's was part of an explanation for why I value them, so it's not really a strawman. It wasn't really meant as a core point, or characterization of the other side.
> Most people can not be developers
I don't agree with you there. I'm not 100% sure the numbers, but there's really nothing special about being good at programming. These arrogant attitudes give our profession a terrible reputation, then I have to go back to the real world, and deal with people that assume I'm like you before I even say a word.
Everyone cares for everyone else, until it's their pocketbook. That's why it's easy to say "raise the minimum wage!", it's just the new "pass the back." No skin off the rich SV developers back, as he types on his $1100 iPhone made with slave labor in china, in his slave labor clothes, etc.
The argument about "would I do this job" is the wrong argument. The argument is, CAN I do this job. And yes I can, and yes, most people can. Most people can not be developers. So why bother with the worthless platitude.
Also to - it is a strawman to suggest I don't want a world without servers. I just suggested that over-subsidizing them is bad for society, as a whole.