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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by tehjoker on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:52PM (#25292867)
Sure some of them have, but their foundational democratic and working class structure makes it possible for them to have a progressive effect on society. By contrast, the corporations that they are in conflict with supported the Nazis and planned a coup against FDR because their foundational interests in a regimented, nationalist, power hungry, and elitist society were aligned.

https://newspunch.com/american-companies-nazi-germany/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

EDIT: to respond to comments below:

1. Union busting since the New Deal era resulted in one of the most oppressed working classes in the world. Hence, low union enrollment.

2. FDR saved capitalism. I'm not his biggest fan. I'm a socialist.

3. Serious money was offered during the business plot. It didn't come to fruition, but the danger was real. Corporations are the real power in America.

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by busterarm on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:01PM (#25292974)
And yet the most unionized industry in the US (at like 75% of overall union membership) is white-collar federal employment.

There's nothing working class about that.

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by fabianhjr on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:19PM (#25293272)
Working class are people that have to sell their labour to get income; capitalist class are those that live off capital income. (Dividends, rent, etc)

If someone is employed in a government organization, like the CDC or a secretary of the white house, and they don't have capital income then they are working class.

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