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If course not. It shouldn’t be a secret that the most fundamental political division of modern times is between labor and caapital, and that Silicon Valley cul
by CPLX 8y ago
If course not.
It shouldn’t be a secret that the most fundamental political division of modern times is between labor and caapital, and that Silicon Valley culture is squarely on the side of capital.
- icebraining 8y agoIs that why they "overwhelmingly favored increased taxes on the rich and further redistribution of wealth to poor communities" ?
- CPLX 8y agoThey could just be in favor of paying them fair wages and allowing them to organize.
- strken 8y agoThe framing of the conflict as being labor vs capital rests on the assumption that the economy is at Pareto optimality. The tech industry's narrative is the opposite: it assumes that there are still inefficiencies which can be removed, to the eventual mutual benefit of both capital AND labor. I think what's happening is somewhere between the two extremes: the pie is still getting larger, but labor's slice of the pie is diminishing at such a rate that it's barely growing at all.