Agreed. I understand the concept of wage-fixing that's happening here, but I also see the vemon that's laced in all the articles written about it to make Google/Apple execs seem as evil as possible. I get it, they've been doing stuff under the table and people are losing their jobs needlessly... but it doesn't need to be stated in this manner.
And it hasn't left my mind that even with all these wage-fixing complaints, those of us in the soft-engineering field are still enjoying the current good times and we still have SF-gentrification issues, and all the outside-of-tech people, who have real problems.
This whole thing is beginning to lose perspective. Because seriously, we're doing...pretty...freakin'...well these days on our average 6 figure salaries. The real victims are people like the HR-lady who lost her job.
Engineers are doing well, for sure. But compared to the profits of Google and Apple and their executives, engineer salaries are a joke. And yet, these cartels did not help to support the HR lady who lost her job, but instead served to further enrich the obscene wealth of the executives in charge of these companies.
And it hasn't left my mind that even with all these wage-fixing complaints, those of us in the soft-engineering field are still enjoying the current good times and we still have SF-gentrification issues, and all the outside-of-tech people, who have real problems.
This whole thing is beginning to lose perspective. Because seriously, we're doing...pretty...freakin'...well these days on our average 6 figure salaries. The real victims are people like the HR-lady who lost her job.