That's not true. Roman citizenship was sacrosant, there was even a war during the late Roman Republic time between the Romans and allied Italians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_War_(91%E2%80%9387_BC) fought over it. During the Roman Empire, Caracalla extended citizenship to everyone mainly to spite the Senate.
I’m not sure what you’re aiming for here. You’re making an assumption that in an alternative history that unions did not exist working conditions of that kind would not exist. This assumption does a lot of work and needs substantiation.
e.g in the tech industry you have high salaries, flexible schedules and generous vacations and unionization is virtually non existent
Worker here, with no aspiration of being a millionaire, a manager or an owner:
I hate unions. They always end up being led by parasites that have no idea how to do the actual job, looking to rent-seek on the backs of people who do.
The functionally correct code could be rejected in PR for many reasons other than style:
1. Solution under-engineered/over-engineered.
2. Code is hard to read or comprehend.
3. Design/Archtecture lacking.
4. Principles decided upon by team not adhered to.
These are just some of the reasons I've rejected functionally correct code before.
To summarize, in any software engineering course you learn that there are other metrics used to evaluate code other than correctness (maintainability, readability, scalability, portability, efficiency etc.)
Comprehensive end-to-end tests and CI can only attest to correctness, most engineers worth their salt won't review code only in regards to that aspect though.
Tons of people have died for a variety of causes throughout human history. It does not mean that the causes were not silly or deluded. (e.g religious wars, Communism, Fascism etc.)
The problem with grandiose statements like the GGP's are that they compare a realized outcome with an entirely idealized outcome they have in their brains as an alternative.
Yeah I am aware that post modernists and leftists in general redefine words so that they can play dumb with enough plausible deniability. Equivocation is their bread and butter.