@gatesvp@mstdn.ca @mayintoronto@beige.party @Amgine@mamot.fr Right, it's always been boundary-pushing from the corpos. Why did we have high pay and good working conditions in the first place? Because there was a bit of gold rush thinking upstairs about what you had to give programmers to persuade them to join your company and stay there. But we're expensive. We are so fucking expensive. We (usually) earn it more than most jobs in this inverse-pay-to-effort economy, especially with the workaholism, but it's a lot. So there was always going to be a reckoning someday where the bosses started chiseling those salaries and benefits down to see how far they could go before hitting a breaking point. It is for the best for that breaking point to still be very high, because the alternative is tolerating doing what we do for fire sale prices for the rest of our lives.