Some tech workers questioned whether UPS drivers deserved high pay — others jumped in to note the importance of the jobs and harsh working conditions.

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

But also those comments are expectedly hideous.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]English
    50•1 year ago

    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.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]English
        14•1 year ago

        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.

        • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]English
          3•1 year ago

          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.

          • BeamBrain [he/him]English
            4•1 year 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.