theories: a) realize they're the bourgeoisie, believe the end of capitalism is inevitable, trying to signal their way out of the guillotine
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b) realize they're the bourgeoisie, understand unions are short-term beneficial to workers, just want even more money
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c) realize they're the bourgeoisie, trying to signal downward for social cred like white kids bragging about visiting "rough" neighborhoods
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d) crypto-primitivists trying to bring the tech industry to a halt and thus precipitate the downfall of industrial civilization
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e) despite making individually 3-6x median household income tech socialists have memed themselves into believing they are working class
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I'd rather a self-aware and diligent aristocracy but don't like the odds of getting either quality out of the current crop
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As a top quint techy in AI I want basic income 'cause I feel kind of guilty about the jobs I'm destroying. So, I guess (a) is closest.
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"keep the lower classes comfortable enough not to rise up and wreck everything" is an elite opinion with a strong pedigree
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I'm not top quintile income... but I'm a tech worker and I'm pro unionisation.
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Tech workers might have a lot of money... but they still have a load less power than the cos they work for.
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Yeah, there's others out there with even less... but I see more ways tech worker unionisation helps them than hurts them.
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And neither has much power or money compared to the tech cos themselves. So why snipe?
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if I were working class and marxist I would be enraged by the idea of the upper middle appropriating our politics to enrich themselves
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I think the reasons you're not a Marxist are probably related to the reasons you'd be enraged!
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Control over non-wage aspects of the work.
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Business practices: corporate strategy, funding sources, profit sinks, M&A, governance, growth vs. consolidation, partnerships.
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Right. As "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle" taught us, tech workers should be GRATEFUL to spend weekends performing dudebros' shitwork.
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A great American film
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many tech workers still assume employers have Scrooge McDuck swimming pools of cash they can grab via unionisation
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I dunno the idea of SF tech workers striking in solidarity with e.g. plumbers like it's the 60s again seems pretty powerful imo?
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