I definitely agree things are over saturated right now.

I don’t know how, but I’ve met a lot people from Apple Google Meta and Netflix (less so Netflix actually), earning huge salaries to do nothing at all and have very few actual skills. I have no idea how things got like that, but it’s on hiring managers at these companies.

I agree employees should be paid proportional to the value they bring in. It’s one reason I don’t like strict salary bands and hate tenure based seniority. Briefly tech was the only field doing that.

Once everyone formalized their bands it got a lot harder to get raises, and the bands are completely disconnected from value. Plus, companies are making bands based on private survey data from companies only shared with other companies (smells like system price fixing/collusion in the labour market to me).

But once you’ve added salary bands and all that the workers might as well form a union. There’s no employee agency to lose anymore anyways.

I wouldn’t be opposed to more worker democracy, but I’m also a bit traumatized from shitty unions. So I don’t know what the answer is. I’m never going to work for a union that does tenure based seniority for example — I just can’t stand the “I got here first” mentality.