[saubeidl]

The capitalist class has always conspired to keep labor down.

Meanwhile, a lot of laborers in our profession have fallen for their propaganda of markets and so-called meritocracy, not realizing they have more in common with the fruit picker than their common exploiter.

Class warfare is real. It's time tech workers wake up to that fact and start fighting back instead of letting oligarchs walk over them.

[supportengineer]

Don't they realize that if they raise the labor class up, they will correspondingly raise themselves up by a multiple?

[Mistletoe]

The problem is every tech worker sees themselves as a temporarily embarrassed oligarch in waiting.

[LakesAndTrees]

I’d say this applies to a far broader group; I’ll never forget when a professor asked for a show of hands on the first day of class: “how many of you will have more than 10 million?”

More than half raised their hands immediately. It was a Philosophy 101 class.

[rchaud]

$10 million sounds like peanuts in an information environment where discussion is dominated by talk of billionnaires. When I was growing up, I remember Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's wealth being touted as a measly $40 billion or something. Today the numbers tossed around for Bezos, Musk etc are minds numbingly massive, 200 to 300 billion.

Meanwhile most people in "rich" countries will have to reach mid-career status to even reach $100k.

[saubeidl]

This is exactly what I'm referring to when saying "they fell for the propaganda".

[beezlewax]

How though? Unions or something else?

[baq]

Unions are counterweight for HR. You want coops to get at least some pooled capital. Otherwise you need investors or debt and end up in the same place you started.