no matter how esoteric or incomprehensible our politics get, we'll never beat top quint income bracket tech workers pushing for unionization
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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 mean techies who think that they themselves should form unions because they are not paid enough money or something
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I don't think a programmer making $130k in SF is "bourgeois" in any meaningful sense of the term.
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>Tech worker lefties with self awareness
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