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Open Left:: Geez (wondering why Larry Lessig doesn’t support the auto bailout):
I just don’t get this amazing lack of sympathy for working people, or perhaps, the naivete at how politics actually works. Why a $700B bailout for bankers, which produce no obvious product, and not a $14B bridge loan for people that actually make automobiles? No particular reason. Oh, and the market shall provide. It’s really a really remarkable sentiment in this day and age, a sort of tenured ‘let them eat cake’.
Just ask yourself this: which union do most software developers and Internet entrepreneurs belong to? Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Now do you get it?
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“which union do most software developers and Internet entrepreneurs belong to?”
I believe the union is called something like “the Union of the privileged,” this class of people who can extract what they need to live without having to organize, by virtue of their specialized skills, years of expensive post-secondary education, and so on. Don’t worry though, that “union” is going to be busted as we see various waves of jobs transfer to lower wage developer economies.