Show threadCory DoctorowDec 21, 2022

Once you understand that corporate conduct is a matter of power, not personality, then you understand that the way to prevent companies from harming you is to meet their power with #CountervailingPower. This is why #TechWorker #unions matter: organized #labor has historically been the most important check on corporate power, which is why tech companies are so vicious in the face of union drives:

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As unions decline, inequality rises

To a remarkable extent, inequality, which fell during the New Deal but has risen dramatically since the late 1970s, corresponds to the rise and fall of unionization in the United States. BLOG: Union decline and rising inequality in two charts The passage in 1935 of the National Labor Relations Act, which protected and encouraged unions,…

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