I mean you’re building a real tool that provides some utility to people, I wouldn’t say you’re a class traitor exactly. Programming is an interesting one since the skill is so in demand it’s one of the few trades that are well compensated. Ideally all workers would get paid like programmers but I don’t think being one makes you a class traitor. Promoting to manager…. Quite possibly, but we will need software managers in our society, whatever the economic state.
Perverse incentives indeed, but on some level they companies are also providing infrastructure for the internet as we know it, and a socialist society going forward needs internet infrastructure too. I’ve thought about this a lot, I’m a SWE myself at a smaller tech company.
I mean you’re building a real tool that provides some utility to people, I wouldn’t say you’re a class traitor exactly. Programming is an interesting one since the skill is so in demand it’s one of the few trades that are well compensated. Ideally all workers would get paid like programmers but I don’t think being one makes you a class traitor. Promoting to manager…. Quite possibly, but we will need software managers in our society, whatever the economic state.
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Perverse incentives indeed, but on some level they companies are also providing infrastructure for the internet as we know it, and a socialist society going forward needs internet infrastructure too. I’ve thought about this a lot, I’m a SWE myself at a smaller tech company.