Can't underestimate job security in the evaluation of salary.
38 karma · joined March 20, 2022
Can't underestimate job security in the evaluation of salary.
It was easy to see that remote work could work in more environments given the right push. Software and technology ultimately needed to improve and it absolutely has.
Now compare to UBI, it's just not feasible. We see countries with extreme inflation and how bad it is, we see that UBI requires tyranny to work, it's just not comparable to remote work in any way.
Valve as an example runs steam with their own games, and also with paid community created remakes of their games sold on their same platform, they exemplify what I would expect from Apple, epic, Google, etc.
Granted if you are talking frontend browser code then sure webpack, but that tool has been around and stable for many years now.
Added bonus too is browser adoption is way better than ever so you don't really need a transpile either, typescript being the exception.
Instead Australia can now get what it wants and the backlash is minimal at best. Meanwhile they can go on to celebrate their dystopian law as working because of the endorsement Google gave them by capitulating.
Short term yeah it'd suck for Australia to lose Google but then the law gets changed back, Google comes back, and everyone wins. Well except for the Australian government.