[falloutx]

> And the initial gut reaction is to resist by organizing labor.

Yeah like tech workers have similar rights to union workers. We literally have 0 power compared to any previous group of workers. Organizing of labour cant even happen in tech as tech has large percentage of immigrant labour who have even less rights than citizens.

Also there is no shared pain like union workers had, we all have been given different incentives, working under different corporations so without shared pain its impossible to organize. AI is the first shared pain we had, and even this caused no resistance from tech workers. Resistance has come from the users, which is the first good sign. Consumers have shown more ethics than workers and we have to applaud that. Any resistance to buying chatbot subscriptions has to be celebrated.

[ap99]

I'm curious as to what previous group you're comparing yourself (and the rest of us) to.

I'm also curious as to what you do, where you do it, and who you work for that makes you feel like you have zero power.

[falloutx]

Just a regular senior SDE at one of the Mag7. I can tell you everyone at these companies is replaceable within a day. Even within an hour. Even the head of depts have no power above them, they can be fired on short notice.

[ap99]

What would your version of fair balance of power look like?

[uyhsadf]

This website is literally a place for capitalists (mostly temporarily embarrassed) to brag about how they're going to cheat and scam their way to the top.

[co_king_3]

Labor organizing is (obviously) banned on HackerNews.

This isn't the place to kvetch about this; you will literally never see a unionization effort on this website because the accounts of the people posting about it will be [flagged] and shadowbanned.