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I don't know why people always jump to "collective action" as the answer to anything related to compensation. Software engineers and program managers are not powerless, uniform skilled, replaceable cogs. You have unique & distinctive value. That we've just gone through the most ridiculous compensation inflation period of my entire career yet people still act like they're forced to put in 70+ hours a week in a coal mine boggles the mind.

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> Software engineers and program managers are not powerless, uniform skilled, replaceable cogs. You have unique & distinctive value.

I beg to differ. Most companies treat their IT employees as exchangeable cogs. Hell, there's an entire offshoring and h1b industry built around that fact, not to mention local dumpsterfires like Accidenture.

> yet people still act like they're forced to put in 70+ hours a week in a coal mine boggles the mind.

Well, many of us work 80+ hours a week and are happy because they're allowed the honor to work for SpaceX/Facebook/Google/... so yeah.

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