[consulting] Unionizing Drupal

[Jeff Greenberg]

"Both communism and socialism are failed experiments in perpetual 
motion, the latter fueled by the inertia of propaganda, and the latter 
by other people's money." -Ben Avram

Unions serve their purpose, which is primarily to protect workers of 
rote. Unions have never been a force in fostering outwardly-facing 
innovation. Most Drupal developers, and most freelancers in general, are 
innovators, not rote programmers.

Odesk seeks to treat programming as a commodity, an hourly wage for an 
activity no longer differentiated by talent or innovation, so ensured by 
keeping framed diaries of activity that must fit into the single-tasking 
mold rather than a value-priced product. The Odesk model applied 
elsewhere would have us pay for a meal based solely on the time spent 
preparing it.

I am an artist, not a manufacturing line worker or a plumber. Like 
painters, sculptors, writers and architects, my rate is based on the 
final product, the innovation, quality and skill I bring to its 
creation, not how many lines of code I generate per hour, and that's 
what clients here prefer.