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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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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whereas unions are largely about securing more favorable working conditions
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what we wanted: totalitarian corporate state run by charismatic and ruthless executives what we got: nerds in cargo pants failing to profit
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"trying to start evil megacorp but all I can manage is to waste money handed to me from pension funds??" I post in a panic to quora
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the cargo pants nerds aren't the ones getting the pension fund money (except indirectly through google)
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i'm sorry i can't hear you over all the fake undergrads pitching doomed web startup ideas to any investment fund they can find
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yeah b/c nobody will fund them. VC is old-fashioned banking and anyone involved in it who pretends otherwise is lying
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and most of the activity of most actually-existing startups is enterprise sales
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there was a brief period when the consumer web and mobile were being created when that wasn't true but that's over
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Socialism means worker ownership of means of production. Unions are in the direction of workers getting an equal share of the enterprise.
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So it's not so much "poor us"; it's more "look how much more Mr. Bossman gets from *our* labor".
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That said from talking to my Marxist friend, I think they'd still believe in heavily taxing those high tech union salaries.
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Benign aristocracy is the best form of government, but alas it is vulnerable to policy capture.
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