[consulting] Suggestion for Dries and Moderators: New Politics List

[Sami Khan]

> This list aims to connect Drupal consultants, to share ideas  
> and experience amongst Drupal consultants, to obtain feedback from  
> Drupal consultants, and hopefully, to grow the number of Drupal  
> consultants. 

When all else fails, blame the other side for being off topic. Excellent,
and I will now offer a rebuttal. What we are discussing is in the realm of
"talking shop" as business is directly effected by the economy and
politics. Consultants are potentially future employees or if they are not
still concerned with how much business they are getting, the terms of the
business, health insurance issues, contract disputes all of which fall
within the realm of unions, labour relations, employee rights, and so on.
Whatever politics is involved with that is then contingent to the business
that these consultants are doing. As consultants they should know what they
options are on whether or not to unionise, how they will be treated as
employees, and or subcontractors.

There are players in the Drupal field who monopolize consultants. There
are predatory companies that don't give a shit about employees and abuse
their employees to make a buck. So when we start talking about Brittany
Spears you can chime in again about the politics of the "Bad Apples" who
wish to ruffle some feathers and bring the no good unions into the
business. 

Sami


If you went
> in the Drupal Dev IRC room and never stopped talking about how awesome
the
> latest Britney Spears album is, chx would kick you out, 

Now you are arguing to absurdity.

> not because he
> hates your ideas (though he probably does), but because its not
appropriate
> to talk about Britney's awesome new album there. The appropriate place
for
> that is #drupal-crappypopmusic.

Yes, your motivations, however are quite different!

Sami