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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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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especially arguments about eg preventing adtech from being repurposed for government surveillance or border control
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e) worried about crapfloods of bad programmers (esp outsourced ones) and very, very confused
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Bloody optimism
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As Management, I can't comment.
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