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Re:Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday March 15, 2026 @01:50PM (#47389861)
Ironic that pro-unionization people on HN frequently use SAG as an example of what a software industry union could look like. Ignoring that that's absurd (no other engineering union I know of works like that), just as the parent highlights, unions won't make a difference when the economics of an industry no longer make sense and that is what is happening to software right now.
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Re:Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis by awongh on Sunday March 15, 2026 @03:34PM (#47391041)
One of the main differences I've heard referenced is that acting and being a movie star means that the work is fundamentally differentiable via the end-product, where producing software is meant to have the same outcome no matter who creates it.

That is just not the case with acting, where the end product being differentiable is part of the inherent value of the product.

Also, it's probably true that SAG's loss of industry power has very much to do with the loss of the power of movie stars in general.

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Re:Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis by Jensson on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:44AM (#47395541)
> One of the main differences I've heard referenced is that acting and being a movie star means that the work is fundamentally differentiable via the end-product, where producing software is meant to have the same outcome no matter who creates it.

But that never happens. The different browsers should in theory be exactly the same but they are different in many ways due to engineers being different.

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Re:Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis by shimman on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:09PM (#47390075)
Don't really see anyone doing this, more like the pro-union arguments I see on HN are mostly about getting paid for on-call, wanting a worker elected member to the board, and having leadership actually held accountable for their decisions.

Getting paid for being on-call seems straight forward to me.

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