Comment by rubicon33 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by rubicon33 | Hacker News Reader

Thank you "Modern Labor" for being yet another force that is determined to make software development go the way of Woodworking, Welding, Automotive Manufacturing, etc.

We're already on the path toward blue collar salaries thanks to big pushes from government and big tech (Google,FB,etc.) to lower labor costs by inflating the supply of workers. You've heard it before - "not enough software developers!"... Yet salaries are barely moving? We didn't need it, but now startups like "Modern Labor" further incentives an ever growing influx of programmers into a market which is destined for over saturation.

Get ready folks. Your white color job, is turning blue faster than you even realize it. Find something to specialize in and do it fast.

> Find something to specialize in and do it fast.

I specialize in unfucking harebrained implementations written by teams of "engineers" with five months of experience.

"Yet another force" is accurate I think. Many open source developers, as soon as they discover that evangelizing is a less stressful job than actually writing code, go into the "teach everyone to code" and "we need more minorities" business.

It's good business once you know how to exploit it.

white collar and blue collar are awful terms. can we just accept the fact that we are all laborers... and look after our interests, together as one.

In some sense this is very true. Michael Porter (Harvard prof, wrote Competitive Strategy), thinks that basically everyone in an advanced economy has to constantly increase their skills, but as a result, everyone produces more for less money, and the living standards go up collectively. Is this right? Maybe, maybe not.

It sounds right to me, except that the living standards don't go up, the surplus goes to the edu/housing/healthcare rent seekers.

> Thank you "Modern Labor" for being yet another force that is determined to make software development go the way of Woodworking, Welding, Automotive Manufacturing, etc.

Would this actually be bad for society?

We need a startup that fixes capitalism. Err fixes capitalism for labor. Capitalism is fine as is for capitalists.

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