- we, as tech workers, are losing out immensely due to a lack of collective bargaining
I look at the recent SAG-AFTRA strike as a reference: these are jobs with similarly privileged work conditions. However, there being a union meant they could inflict significant pain on industry players until their demands around AI training were met.
Meanwhile, we’re all just keeping our heads down hoping the market improves at the same time the biggest players are using our inputs to train even better models.
Just because our work conditions are better than other professions doesn’t negate the notion that we are being actively exploited to our own detriment.
This is true, but it's also true that any 12 year old kid with an ancient laptop on a random island in Indonesia will be proficient enough at writing code 4 years from now to take my job. There's no job security in big tech because it's a global marketplace. And it always will be.
- tech work is relatively privileged
- we, as tech workers, are losing out immensely due to a lack of collective bargaining
I look at the recent SAG-AFTRA strike as a reference: these are jobs with similarly privileged work conditions. However, there being a union meant they could inflict significant pain on industry players until their demands around AI training were met.
Meanwhile, we’re all just keeping our heads down hoping the market improves at the same time the biggest players are using our inputs to train even better models.
Just because our work conditions are better than other professions doesn’t negate the notion that we are being actively exploited to our own detriment.