James Wu on Nostr: How #xz could have been avoided: 1. During the 2013-2018 boom when tech workers as a ...
How #xz could have been avoided:
1. During the 2013-2018 boom when tech workers as a class had maximum leverage, used *some* of the energy organizing broad tech unions and guilds instead of negotiating for fuck-you money and pulling up the ladder by telling other trades to “learn 2 code noobs”
2. craft broadly populist multi-union legislation to raise taxes for “infra and natsec basic income fund”, for a living stipend to infra workers: railroad, steelworkers, electricians, OSS maintainers
1. During the 2013-2018 boom when tech workers as a class had maximum leverage, used *some* of the energy organizing broad tech unions and guilds instead of negotiating for fuck-you money and pulling up the ladder by telling other trades to “learn 2 code noobs”
2. craft broadly populist multi-union legislation to raise taxes for “infra and natsec basic income fund”, for a living stipend to infra workers: railroad, steelworkers, electricians, OSS maintainers