Re:Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel
by VirusNewbie on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:18PM
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Well if you think that some combination of being exceptional, or being hardworking + a bit lucky, or some such gets you further in the US than other places, then you can bet that the exceptional and hardworking people are going to end up coming to the US.
The US system can be summarised as "Fuck you, I got mine".
That said if we are honest we have to discover the positives of an individualist system vs a more collective system.
One of which is that exceptional people do on average do better than they would in a more collective system.
It's whether those people doing better is sufficient to offset all the people doing worse that is the debate and I think on balance no, it's not.
That said I'm also not one of those exceptional people either (not many of us here actually are) so that will colour my view, I'm a decent to good developer who writes stuff that works, provides value and gets paid so to me strong worker protections whether enforced by government or union make sense otherwise the power is all on the other side of the table.