I don't think that's it. I'm pretty damn red on economics, and I'm a software developer, but I'm not in a union because the unions I could join are not very goo

I don't think that's it. I'm pretty damn red on economics, and I'm a software developer, but I'm not in a union because the unions I could join are not very good. Either they're more interested in selling me credit cards, or they're for policies which are disastrously bad for a software developer (e.g, paying into a pensions scheme which pays out nothing if you haven't been with the same employer for 7 years before retirement), or more commonly, both. I could join and try to influence them, but if I was good at that sort of thing, I probably wouldn't have been a software developer in the first place.