I agree with some parts of the article, others seem fairly silly.
Agree: Tech workers could, in theory, form powerful unions. Tech workers are horrified by xenophobia, Trump and right-wing propaganda, and really horrified by their own mostly totally unwitting role in supporting it. I am glad the author recognizes the flaws in and rejects coming up with some betrayal theory.
Disagree: Tech workers are flocking to the far left, anti-capitalism and/or some form of socialism. Tech workers want to and/or seriously think about unionizing, which should be done to achieve far leftish goals. Tech workers want to help unionize and unionize with blue collar workers that they have little in common with. The author notes that existing organized unions and left-wingish groups sometimes seem to already rather openly resent tech workers, but does not seem to consider whether that would be a practical problem. Tech worker and blue collar unions would of course agree with each other. A union-controlled silicon valley will of course naturally always do the "right thing" which will always be completely obvious and everyone will agree upon.
On the one hand I sometimes wish tech was more democratic. I wish there were stronger moral warrants that could be collectively stated. But I think some people see organized labor with stars in their eyes, it's still another group of humans that might collectively do short-sighted, self-interested things, and might end up disagreeing on what seem like fundamental ground truths with someone like the author of this article or any other particular person.
And the single biggest gripe every tech worker has is the real estate crisis, which is caused by a perfect storm of short-sightedness, self-interest and bad ideas of local left-wingish politics...
Agree: Tech workers could, in theory, form powerful unions. Tech workers are horrified by xenophobia, Trump and right-wing propaganda, and really horrified by their own mostly totally unwitting role in supporting it. I am glad the author recognizes the flaws in and rejects coming up with some betrayal theory.
Disagree: Tech workers are flocking to the far left, anti-capitalism and/or some form of socialism. Tech workers want to and/or seriously think about unionizing, which should be done to achieve far leftish goals. Tech workers want to help unionize and unionize with blue collar workers that they have little in common with. The author notes that existing organized unions and left-wingish groups sometimes seem to already rather openly resent tech workers, but does not seem to consider whether that would be a practical problem. Tech worker and blue collar unions would of course agree with each other. A union-controlled silicon valley will of course naturally always do the "right thing" which will always be completely obvious and everyone will agree upon.
On the one hand I sometimes wish tech was more democratic. I wish there were stronger moral warrants that could be collectively stated. But I think some people see organized labor with stars in their eyes, it's still another group of humans that might collectively do short-sighted, self-interested things, and might end up disagreeing on what seem like fundamental ground truths with someone like the author of this article or any other particular person.
And the single biggest gripe every tech worker has is the real estate crisis, which is caused by a perfect storm of short-sightedness, self-interest and bad ideas of local left-wingish politics...