You’re welcome to go work at a software union shop, like Boeing.
Writing low quality software that kills people, great job security even if you are at fault for peanut pay. I’ll take my non union job any day.
> Writing low quality software that kills people, great job security even if you are at fault for peanut pay. I’ll take my non union job any day.
Boeing primarily manufactures and designs airplanes. The odds of dying while being a passenger on an airplane is about 1 in 200,000. Compare that to being a cyclist, which is 1 in 3,500. Or a pedestrian which is 1 in 485.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/how-safe-is-flying-heres...
Putting your stupendously bad comparison aside, I'd say most software devs/programmers don't really need to unionise, aside from video game devs. 80+ hour work weeks, constant burn out, consistently underpaid compared to most other devs who just program boring line of business apps; they just get treated very poorly.
Comparing safety by deaths/injuries per distance travelled between different modes of transport does not make sense to me.
To prove the point imagine some hypothetical mode of travel that can take us to the nearest star - alpha centauri. Now imagine that 50% of people that travel via this mode of transport die, thats obviously not a risk anybody would be willing to take right? But if you use the same statistics as we use for aircraft safety it looks amazing, better than anything else by far.
Am I saying that aircraft are unsafe? Not at all - they're still very safe relative to other modes of transport, but the statistics that we commonly calculate to compare them seem totally meaningless to me. Comparing deaths per distance travelled only makes any sense when comparing modes of travel that actually go similar distances.
I also acknowledge that this is somewhat of a regional nitpick - it makes a lot more sense to compare aircraft with e.g. cars in the United States because taking an aircraft vs taking a car to travel between different states is actually a choice that many people are making. Whereas I live in a small country where there's very little overlap between aircraft trips and car trips.
What does my boss’s paycheck have to do with my argument? How does your comment convince me i’m not way better off than you and other union NPCs?