If I strip the outrage and emotional rhetoric from your comment, what I’m left with is a suggestion that not all workers were deceived into opposing labour regu

If I strip the outrage and emotional rhetoric from your comment, what I’m left with is a suggestion that not all workers were deceived into opposing labour regulation. Well, ok. And then there’s a suggestion that people talking about labourers are looking down their noses at labourers. Well, that is a thing. As is people looking down at “Apple fanboys,” or looking down at “People who buy whatever marketing tells them to buy,” or “People believing whatever Fox tells them to believe.” That is absolutely a thing, and it goes across almost all discussions about almost all topics. You can’t bring up interviewing without a bunch of people confidently stating that everyone else is doing it wrong and stupidly cargo-culting. But I don’t see the OP talking about the way that disinformation and political dark patterns as framing labourers as simpletons. If you want reductionism, when it comes to humans persuading other humans to do things, we are all simpletons. We all have what amount to zero-day vulnerabilities. We all can be stunningly brilliant in one area of our lives, but thicker than a block of wood in another. I don’t think there's anything condescending or paternalistic about saying this.