In order to bring understanding to this discussion, we can separate unions into two types: vertical unions and horizontal unions.
Vertical unions are hierarchal. They have administrative staff that are not necessarily workers and they reproduce the characteristics of our electoral system in a smaller scale. This includes corrupt elected officials who have back deals with companies, etc.
The horizontal unions are non hierarchical. They are based on the practice of anarcho syndicalism. The union is just a collection of smaller unions, each has autonomy to make their own decisions. The delegates can be recalled at any time. All staff are workers and decisions are collectively being made.
For horizontal unions, the person you are responding to is correct. You and your colleagues are the ones that decide how it is going to run.
For vertical unions, you are correct. A few influential members have all the power.
You are both correct but just not talking about the same thing.
So you are saying it is better if the candidate lies.
Otherwise you will be forced to reject him because there might be a possibility that the problem was him.
Seems like you are hiring the best liars. Or at least the best at playing an arbitrary game of saying and not saying the correct things that won't trigger a rejection.
At this point, are you even needed? Maybe we could replace the interview process with a lottery system. Same result, less expensive.
Open source misses the point of Free Software. The distinction is important.
I have some tips that might help you develop a better relationship with Free Software.
Try to be egotistical about it. Contribute because you want a change in a software you use. If the maintainers are giving you a hard time, fork it with your changes and be happy.
Stop donating to software foundations, you will be disappointed on how they use your money.
Never sign away your rights with a contributor agreement. Fork it and move on.
Maybe us, animals, don't have an instinct of survival. That's a bit of an assumption.
Maybe we have another very strong instinct and survival is just the observed side effect but not the operating driving force. Indeed, animals take mortal risks constantly.
It could also be that they we a variety of instincts in fight for domination and survival is just one of them but not the strongest one.
As much as I disagree with Ayn Rand on a lot of things, she did make an important observation.
Parasites will be attracted to high value things in order to extract value, not to add to it. They climb the hierarchy of the organisation and then use it for their own benefit.
It is not only developers who do resume building oriented work. These people start social causes so that they can claim that they spearheaded this or that campaign. In order to gain prestige.
Engineers who only care about the product become the bottom of the hierarchy and the organisation becomes a reflection of the needs and wants of these parasites.
"Thanks F3nd0! There are currently no plans to switch to a less permissive license.
And we're perfectly happy using proprietary services like GitHub and Discord as long as they make our work easier and more enjoyable. We recently evaluated a number of alternatives, and found that they all introduced more friction than we were comfortable with.
Although the task of building a browser is itself challenging, we're a pragmatic project :)"
You have no idea how much this helps me.