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Re:How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020) by scrozier on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:58PM (#26210130)
After being an entrepreneur and an independent contractor most of my career (I'm 62), and now finding myself working for a company "rolling up" a bunch of software companies, I will say that the state of employment seems to have gone downhill drastically over my lifetime.
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Re:How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020) by iorrus on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:23PM (#26210775)
Could you expand a bit on this? Do you mean the quality of the people in employment has gone downhill or do you mean that equality of life for employees has reduced? Less job security, poorer working conditions etc?
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Re:How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020) by scrozier on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:38PM (#26210837)
The latter. All the things you say, plus inexpert management, ridiculous legalese in employment matters, lack of respect for employees, poor hiring practices, etc.
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