Uber folks got screwed because we in the tech industry are busy pretending we are so fucking special
I believe that folks in tech industry think that they are too special and hence refuse to take collective action. We frequently refuse to unionise thinking that it will lead to not-so-good peopel getting higher TCs as if the rest of us are some kind of rain makers. None of us are the Rob Pike or Jeff Dean or Sanjay Ghemawat, we are a bunch of LC monkeys who solve build problems and read logs as a full time job. We refuse to discuss salaries and comp openly. Only blind community does this and we still need to resort to anonymity since this kind of thing is frowned upon ( thank you Blind). Even after Uber employees received ridiculous tax bills (governments fault too here), yet the lawsuit is not class action. We just refuse to take any collective action.
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