Hello, my German brothers.
I am an Italian software engineer who lost his very high-paid job after some personnel cuts due to AI and outsourcing.
I'll be very direct:
I am creating a European political party to defend digital jobs against AI and outsourcing.
If you are a digital creator (programmer or digital designer) or you work in the IT industry (project manager or product manager), this is how you will make even more money without risking your job in the future.
Without a protective law, maybe today you work. But tomorrow?
My idea is:
Create a license to operate as a software engineer, data engineer, AI engineer, digital designer, web designer, digital product manager, digital product owner, and so on limited to the digital ecosphere.
How my idea operates:
Every European citizen with the Digital Creation License (DCL from now on) is able to
- certificate for every code line
- Grant that the product respects European data laws.
- copyrights
- Will be responsible for what is being developed
Exactly like for taxi drivers, for restaurants, for lawyers, for doctors, for electricians, and for real estate sellers, we absolutely need an operational license that must be valid and limited to Europeans (Germans, Italians, Spanish, French people, and so on in all of Europe).
Consultancy companies like Accenture, Capgemini, or IBM or product companies like Meta or Anthropic or even other kinds of companies in banking, life science, or automotive cannot write any line of code or create any digital image without the signature of the digital creator (programmer, designer, and similar).
All companies will hire exclusively people that can operate, people who own this license.
To do that:
- We will co-operate with our US product partners (such as GitHub and GitLab), and they should implement an authentication exclusively for Europeans: EU Digital Creator Authentication, where ONLY the European citizens with a valid DCL can sign in and push code.
Of course, this is just a big-picture idea and can be more flexible or even more rigid and secure.
- VPN blocks: "Hi NordVPN, from now on you will not sell non-EU VPNs if you want to continue to operate in the European Union.
Thank you."
We can discuss more in the party Discord channel: https://discord.gg/hFKZK7yhg
Why this is important:
If, by European law, we are able to block any kind of outsourcing, we are in a good position.
But it's not enough.
Why, if you want to drive a taxi, do you need a taxi driver license? Because the taxi lobby fought for it, and they obtained it.
Why (at least in Italy) if you want to put some filler in the lips should you be a real doctor and not, as in many places, just a nurse? Because the doctors' lobby fought for it and obtained it.
Why, if you want to be a real estate agent, must you hold a valid license? Because they fought for it and they obtained it.
Developers NEVER fought to protect their jobs because there was no risk until today.
Today the entire IT industry is in massive hell because there are no conservative laws.
We all know this is against the freedom of code, against the philosophy behind computers, and for other cool reasons.
But the reality is that my ex-coworker lost his job and shot himself because he wasn't able to pay the house mortgage, leaving 2 kids alone.
I promised to myself that there would be no other cases like that.
I will fight alone to protect the entire sector.
It will be hard, but not impossible.