My #1 hottest take is that there are no class traitors. There are just people pursuing their class interests in a variety of costumes.
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writing for $300 instead of $200, writing for 75 cents a word at a place that defeated a union drive, shopping at X store instead of Y store, on and on. when i was in the UFCW local 4, there was a strike, and while I was supportive, I also went to work mowing lawns/waiting tables
a labor aristocrat like my maternal grandfather could truly avoid "scabbing" -- no picket lines crossed, no non-union products purchased, etc. a whole lifestyle built around that. but my father's family, in WV, experienced caloric scarcity and made far more erratic decisions
