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in calmness @smallcircles@social.coopIf you are in tech, then it is time to https://unionize.fyi 
> The tech industry is a runaway train, and if we don’t do something soon, we’re going to get run over. [..] it’s all going to keep getting worse unless we take a stand. #Unionizing isn’t just a nice idea - it’s a necessity.
> So let’s do what hackers do best: let’s disrupt. [..] Let’s take back our industry, take back our jobs, and take back our futures.
@smallcircles might be a bad idea... Our jobs are getting eroded by AI. Not sure giving them more reasons to choose machines over humans helps.
The AI that we (speaking generally in the context of the article) help build, you mean? The AI that is embraced as the perfect tool to prolong voracious hypercapitalism. It is already out to replace us. And the AI that modern-day autocrats and oligarchs think they need to enforce their technofascist wet dreams. If us techies remain all indviduals dancing to the whims of our employers, we are sure to erode our jobs with AI.
From the political point of view:
Unionized tech workers are one of the few things that actually could put meaningful resistance against the development and use of tech for *really* bad purposes in the current global collapse.
From the labour point of view:
Unions improve the position of all workers, directly of their members, but also indirectly, since in capitalism they are a very necessary counterpower.
The US would not be in this currently very shitty situation if they hadn't dismantled unions with a mixture of repression and propaganda, and by bureaucratizing, decaffeinating and corrupting the remaining ones.
"don't give them a reason to fire you" is not a very strategic position and also grossly underestimates the power of the people.
If you wish, I can write you a list of benefits that workers in many countries on earth have, except for the US... because neoliberalism and anti-union sentiments.
Exactly. Well-written reply, thank you.