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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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I usually have negative productivity after a solid 8 hours of coding because the number of mistakes and poorly thought out design decisions increases dramatically, just from sheer exhaustion.
Even if I have a good idea at 9:00 PM, I let it ride until the next day because I know it's going to be implemented so poorly that I'll have to rewrite it and I would rather just do it once.
Not to mention, the value in software engineers is in the quality of solutions they can derive, not the lines of code they can produce. I almost always solve the most challenging problems when I'm doing something besides staring at a screen. I can't tell you how many times I've had a "light bulb moment" while sitting on the lake in a bass boat.
Even Henry Fucking Ford, who was a greedy bastard, was smart enough to realize that overworked, underpaid employees cost a lot more than ones who are treated and paid well. Anyone who expects developers to just shill code for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week is a total moron just begging for their business to implode.