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The dismissive tech worker discourse around #WGA and #SAGAFTRA #union workers striking basically fall into a predictable pattern:
a) They think actors and writers are a lot better off than most of them are;
b) They have made careers in an industry without any union protection, and somehow think this makes them virtuous;
c) They have no goddamn clue whatsoever how badly they themselves are being exploited.
@flargh There’s also a sort of mythology with tech bros that being in the STEM realm magically protects them from the sort of capitalist pressures that suppress wages, ruin work-life balance, and expose workers to job insecurity.
Ask #GameDev developers working 80 hour weeks on $100M games for intern-level wages if they'd benefit from a #union
Likewise, ask contractors working "off the timesheet" on fix-bid projects for months to keep their jobs.
Twice, I've been on terrific teams when vulture capitalists swooped in w/ brutal layoffs, bribing/guilt-ing a few "rockstar" devs into keeping the ghost ship (& their profits) running on developers' sweat & tears. A union might've checked that exploitation.
@PixelJones @PKMKII @flargh
even within film industry CGI studios are basically a throwaway commodity b/c there are so many willing to work for pennies, something a guild would never allow to happen