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you know what else should be stressed? collective bargaining..it helps sometimes when your fellow coworkers band together to get a raise or to make the work environment better.

Do you have experience with collective bargaining?

As far as I can tell lots of hackers abhor it.

They abhor it but they may never have tried it. A lot of other workers have collectively bargained and received higher pay and other non-pay benefits.

Also, it's not like you have to form a union or anything. Just collectively bargain for a raise or whatever this one time.

Has there ever been a controlled study about whether collective bargaining leads to higher wages in the long run? (Excluding effects like lobbying for restrictions on entering the market.)

From what I know, I can't rule out that collective bargaining for higher wage is like advancing the tide with a bucket.

in my experience they abhor what you get when you start handing money and power to the collective, and stop paying attention to what it's doing to you.

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