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> This is an industry founded upon the principles of innovation and invention, is it not? Perhaps tech can invent a union that can overcome issues found in the unions of the past.

Throughout human history, unions are one of the few ways that ordinary citizens can actually stand up against concentrated power (democracy, revolutions are some other ways). Rather than trying to invent something new, maybe study the past a bit more.



Ah, but we're talking about the tech industry, this disruption-obsessed startup culture. As I always say,

> I'm firmly convinced that tech workers will come around to unionizing once they accidentally reinvent it under a different name

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17881029




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