[consulting] Unionizing Drupal

[Antonio P. P. Almeida]

On 7 Ago 2010 21h10 WEST, eric at openflows.com wrote:

Hello Eric,

> I think the closest unionized example would be Theater and Movie
> workers -- the techies and designers that make Broadway, TV and
> Hollywood function. Their union, the International Association of
> Theatrical and State Engineers, IATSE, has much to offer us in terms
> of how to unionize an industry that is mostly independent workers
> doing relatively short-term contract/project based work.

That would defeat the purpose that started this argument. Unions are
one of the reasons why making a film is so expensive. The way the
studios found around it is to outsource it. Shoot the film in a country
where the rates to be payed to the production personnel is lower:
Morocco, is one example. Compared to the web Hollywood is a pretty
much un-innovative industry. They're one of the main agents pushing
for police state things like ACTA. What part does the fact that the
workforce is unionized and imposes a lot constraints in the production
cycle reflects on Hollywood's agenda to get control of the Internet? I
don't know but there's bound to be some.

Like I've said before I'm not against well defined movements to solve
a specific issue. Keep it simple, keep it loose, keep it
focused. Above all: avoid institutionalization at all costs. Every
institution always end up serving the opposite of what it intended in
the first place. The more power it has, the more it wants. It creates
a divide between insiders and outsiders, benefitting the insiders at
the expense of the outsiders and the development of better solutions.

Furthermore the web is a new "industry" and I don't think that
industrial 20th concepts can be applied: is too loose is too
distributed across the globe.

--- appa

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