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Here's a reminder of relatively recent history: https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/did-steve-jobs-lower-your-salary.html https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/did-steve-jobs-lower-your-... In any case not everyone works for FAANG, and even those that do can suffer unfair termination, various forms of discrimination, or other issues. The reality in the US that productivity has outstripped wages since the 70s. This has been a huge and tragic net loss for general prosperity, because when wealth is concentrated and workers deal with debt and rent-seeking - from college loans, healthcare, high property prices, and others - the cost-of-entry for a viable small businesses becomes unreachably high. Startups are not s substitute for small-but-profitable small businesses, some of which have the potential to become much larger businesses through genuine organic growth rather than investor goosing. Unionisation isn't about your personal circumstances, it's about everyone's personal circumstances. Part of it is about keeping wages high precisely because this gives smart creative people to build new businesses if they choose to. And before someone says "But what about wage costs?" - remember, you are paying inflated costs anyway, but with no benefit. You're paying them to people who tend to be extremely rich already - health insurance companies, banks, landlords, property speculators, and financial speculators. If you pay them to workers you get the Fordist model of increased general prosperity with more people with more money being able to afford - and create - more of everything.