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Re:Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Mar... by dartos on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:16AM (#37508591)
Specifically in the software development field, a good engineer increases the productivity of all other engineers in a way that allows engineers to increase the productivity of each other in a compounding way.

A “10x” engineer is worth a compounding amount more than their peers.

I don’t think that holds for every field.

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Re:Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Mar... by adrianovaroli on Thursday September 14, 2023 @09:53PM (#37517256)
Jorge Luis Borges colleagues at the National Library forced him to go slower because he could catalogue books in a fraction of the time they needed.

So yeah, if you're an absolute genius, you don't need a union. Everybody else does. Your common people colleagues do.

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Re:Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Mar... by dartos on Sunday September 17, 2023 @10:41AM (#37545514)
Yeah, that’s the trade off with many collectivist ideas.

They optimize for equality, which necessarily hurts the highest performers (in one way or another) and benefits the lower ones (in many ways)

Like anything, it’s a trade off

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