I'm suggesting that, as hackers, we ought to try and "cure" this disease that the economy tends to have on the world, rather than complaining about the symptoms that pertain to us. If we're gonna talk symptoms, there are more serious examples of human labor exploitation.
And I'm all for action against any type of exploitation, but I haven't heard any ideas suggested here. If you have an idea on how to specifically address exploitation of software developers, I'm all ears. Maybe those ideas could later be transferred to help protect workers in other industries.
Lets figure out how to fix this. One of the most basic ideas is a union. It would be easy to unionize in a basic form, but I wonder if a developer union could hold any power.
What if some hip new language/framework had a unique license with some higher-level ethical clauses, backed by a tight-knit developer community? Such that developers are at least theoretically protected when they write code in that ecosystem.
And I'm all for action against any type of exploitation, but I haven't heard any ideas suggested here. If you have an idea on how to specifically address exploitation of software developers, I'm all ears. Maybe those ideas could later be transferred to help protect workers in other industries.
Lets figure out how to fix this. One of the most basic ideas is a union. It would be easy to unionize in a basic form, but I wonder if a developer union could hold any power.
What if some hip new language/framework had a unique license with some higher-level ethical clauses, backed by a tight-knit developer community? Such that developers are at least theoretically protected when they write code in that ecosystem.