It’s not our job to fix our employers
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/06-its-not-our-job-to-fix-our-employers/
This broken industry is too big of a problem for software developers to solve alone
(And a Patreon launch)
I wonder how many will spot the visual Easter egg in the video that's highly relevant to the topic of mismanaged and dysfunctional software companies?
Oct 13, 2026, 6:43 PM@baldur is unionization in tech in Iceland really that high? In Norway, and AFAIK the rest of Scandinavia, tech is one of the least unionized industries.
@audunmb Unionisation is really that high pretty much everywhere outside of freelancing. If you have a salaried job here in Iceland, odds are that you're in a union.
It used to be even higher. 90% participation would have been considered low historically
A big reason why participation is so high here is that unions were both a left-wing and a right-wing phenomenon here. Both the left and the right believed that workers needed unions. VR, for example, was historically a right-wing union.
Oct 13, 2026, 9:04 PM
Oct 13, 2026, 7:25 PM@baldur So you’ve been doing YouTube without telling me! Pay the fine!
@mikecane Clearly I need to post about it more often. 🙂
Oct 16, 2026, 7:07 PM@baldur Yes.