I'm just confused about this standpoint, you seem to be opposed to actually delivering value to your employer? Sounds like you have a bad boss or something, maybe switch jobs? Or heck, create your own company if you want a bigger piece of the cake.
I'm probably missing something about your philosophy, because from where I'm standing, it kinda seems like you're saying that because you have learned programming, you're not only entitled to free money, but you also want an equal share to those who have both put in work and taken on risk to create the company you work for?
Which all kinda sounds like what you actually want is UBI, but only for you and your friends (who have higher education).
What am I missing?
This is a great example
With automated tests, Manual QA positions are cut. Now the responsibility to write those tests falls on developers. Sometimes, rarely, there are automation QA people, but most places the tests are written by the devs in my experience
So the company is saving money on a bunch of salaries, the company captures the increased productivity that automated tests offer, executives get bigger bonuses, the investors get a nice bump, the individuals who now have extra responsibility get nothing
Maybe the overall developer market gets a higher salary, eventually, if you believe in the trickle down effect
> but you also want an equal share to those who have both put in work and taken on risk to create the company you work for
I don't expect to earn an equal share, but I do expect to benefit when the company does. This is more and more rare
> Which all kinda sounds like what you actually want is UBI, but only for you and your friends
You could not be further from the truth. People work harder for a smaller share every day. I just want that share to start growing, or at least stop shrinking.
I suppose yeah, failing that then I want to not to have to work as hard. I want some benefit from all of this so called productivity, instead of all of that going to rich people who lecture me about how much "risk" they take gambling some percent of their net worth that is more than I have made in my lifetime
If we want to work less, we need to automate more to make that even theoretically possible. The social situation of just a few people benefiting is orthogonal to the technology being used.
Which is why targeting specific tech in a fight for social justice is misguided, ineffective and probably even contraproductive.
This is only a good thing if you benefit from overall increases in productivity. Most of us don't benefit at an individual level
The general population has been receiving very diminishing returns from widespread increases in productivity, the ownership class has been capturing a majority of the benefit for far too long
Until you can convince me that this will be fixed, I don't see why I should be embracing anything that "improves productivity"