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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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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What I've seen of "tech solidarity" is mostly about collective power to e.g. stop dark patterns; fund free software; protect net; etc
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this is more the role of professional organizations such as those that exist for doctors or lawyers
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d) getting paid a lot doesn't mean you're bourgeoisie, the term implies ownership of the means of production
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capitalist implies ownership. bourgeoisie, as the framework goes, is class that serves capital at the expense of the workers
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I don't think we're disagreeing here? The mythology of starting your own startup is the same if you replace tech with plumbers
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independent plumbers will never experience a 9+ figure windfall
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fwiw I'm not a commie and prefer weber's terminology for this
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employed plumber is working class, independent plumber is old middle, programmer is new middle
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founding a startup is a bid to, if successful, enter the capitalist class
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People can take stances that are against their direct economic interests. I'm not sure it's very surprising?
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if they think unions are beneficial then unionizing themselves is enriching themselves
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from a marxist pov the bourgeoisie arguing they need to unionize is flat out macabre
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there's also an element of "look I'm not a bad person like lefties say"...like collective guilt but for income
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to defer suspicions of benefiting from an unfair distribution of profits i will use collective bargaining to further increase my salary
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