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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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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these sorts of orgs have very thorough codes of ethics and largely exist to protect the profession for its practitioners
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"the social group consisting of people who are employed for wages." Mostly fits other than our 0.1% equity.
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I'm betting it comes from looking at physicians and lawyers, who've built pretty effective guilds that raised their wages significantly.
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physicians and lawyers get paid dirt compared to software engineers
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especially when you consider how much it costs to get over the barriers to entering the guild
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you also have to account for the cost of law and medical school + residency
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F) like all Marxism in history it's actually just a move by near-elites to ally against the elites to move up the power ladder.
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Working a good job a company with x income is not as attractive to many as the same job but with more power even if the company suffers.
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Looks like you stopped thinking of alternatives. Here's the one I feel most likely: f) It's an elaborate signalling game like in a and b 1/
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a and c, rather. But the signalling is to each other. They're signalling that they're the Liberal Coastal Elite by being as conspicuously 2/
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Not-Republican as possible, => as leftist as possible. 3/3
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