While this article seems like it's trying to be profound, my main reaction to most of it's claims are "no kidding, Sherlock" rather than surprise. For instance

While this article seems like it's trying to be profound, my main reaction to most of it's claims are "no kidding, Sherlock" rather than surprise. For instance, when the article writes, "If tech’s moment of reckoning has taught us that Silicon Valley is the same old capitalism" I straight up just laughed. Who didn't think that technology companies weren't engaged in capitalism? In fact, I'd even say that they're the poster child of capitalism: a group of people invent new and or more efficient technologies, processes, or organizations and provide a desirable product or service at a competitive cost. That's what capitalism is all about. I also think the author is also stretching things when trying to draw parallels between tech workers and low skilled labor. Unionization in low skilled labor functions by artificially reducing the supply of labor to drive up costs. Tech workers' are not engaging in this, since the demand for tech jobs is largely higher than the supply. Rather, tech workers are leveraging the high demand for their labor to get the things they want.