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Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000-a-year package with a mixture of anger and admiration (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Firstly hilarious that BI is basically just posting message board comments as news.

But also those comments are expectedly hideous.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Meanwhile, several workers, including a Meta worker, said that software engineers were "underpaid." The TuSimple worker wrote: "the engineers that created that truck he drives are more important because the impact to society is higher, including providing a tool for work."

Software 'engineers' talking like they engineered trucks.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

software engineers were "underpaid."

gulag

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They're right, but for the wrong reasons. Everyone who doesn't own a company is underpaid in capitalism because that's how surplus value works. The problem is that they're denigrating other workers instead of learning from their example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tbf a lot of the value in tech is not created by software Devs. Take uber for example, comparing drivers to Devs, its pretty clear that one side of that equation is getting a hell of a lot more of the surplus value created.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it's nowhere near evenly distributed, but if the company didn't get more value out of the devs than it was paying them, then it wouldn't have those devs.

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