[TriLUG] OT: Developer Rates

[Marty Ferguson]

Untill they realize that they have shared interests and
common goals with people working in other industries:

Stagehands/Grips
Plumbers
Screenwriters
Musicians
Electricians
Pipefitters
Firefighters
Peace Officers (the FOP)
et cetera

All of whom may belong to guilds/unions, with some protection from
outsourcing.
Long-haul truckers have an option - work a Teamsters job, be an independent
driving contractor on someone else's truck, or become a true capitalist
entrepreneur though owning/leasing a rig and setting up the customer
contracts
themselves.

And I will repeat my prior statement that proper governance requires
the responsible regulation of industry.  This is so that school busses
do not get shoved into the path of an oncomming train by an 18 wheeler
rig with an overworked operator and lousy brakes.

Marty



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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
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Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Developer Rates


<SNIP>

Programmers and admins are rapidly achieving the status of long-haul
truckers: a true free market.  Price-fixing among programmers and admins
in the US is darn-near impossible, I'd say.

<SNIP>