Might be a little bit naive but software engineers have so much power over the society. What is gonna happen if we turn everything off until we get what we want?

How do you want to turn things off?

Throwing an EMP in the cloud center regions would certainly do damage, but that wouldn't be fully off.

There’ll always be another engineer to turn things back on

We have as much power over the things that we make as building builders have power over the buildings that they helped to build. Not much at all.

we have power over companies, not society. our job makes work faster and deliver more with less. that's important if you want to make a profit, but society was doing fine before computers

@darksideofyay Well the point is that an industry-scale action would mean huge damages, and the institutions are also using softwares.

Now the thing is, I think that we're all relatively well paid, which means that there's no revendications at that scale, except if it's to help others in theirs