> How did people in the 1930s understand this and pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, and yet highly-educated techies fail to grasp this simple concept? People

> How did people in the 1930s understand this and pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, and yet highly-educated techies fail to grasp this simple concept? People in the 1930s came right out of the Great Depression with 25% unemployment rate. Stuff had to change, and radically at that, which is why FDR got elected. Today's techies, meanwhile, are largely decoupled from the actual realities of the people. We live in decent homes with fat paychecks, and despite us working for the same company as the barely-surviving delivery driver, our lives rarely intersect other than at the next food delivery.