Re:Tech’s Military Dilemma
by knuththetruth on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:53AM
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Actually, lots of people have that conviction. Over a thousand people inside Google signed on against the company’s collaboration with the military, there was all kinds of internal outcry and contention at internal forums, they pushed strongly back against executives bald-faced lies. It already happened:
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military...
And here’s the thing about labor struggle: the reason why Capital owners try to quash it before it gets started is because it’s transformative. Once people see the power they have when they act collectively, what really turns the wheels at work and in society, they’re changed.
> Once people see the power they have when they act collectively
Also, once people see things under the facade, such as
> “Letting you ask that question is the voice that you have. Very few companies would allow you to do that.”
You’re replying to a devout Marxist. This is not a debate over the value of labor movements.
There seems to be a reason the labor movement has squandered since the rise of the Military Industrial Complex, and what’s what I’m speaking to.
But mainly, technical work is just different in nature. It’s a lot more competitive and the hierarchy is more fluid. There’s not an obvious floor like there is with factory workers, where there are a few managers and administrators for hundreds of workers. And the work is almost never manual. Technical workers are also constantly concerned with implementation and that sh were their attention goes. I don’t ever see this actually happening.