It absolutely does, by helping to (re)normalize the idea that the employer/union duality is the common, sensible, ubiquitous arrangement.

Unions traditionally refer to blue collar/factory work.

I don't know what the difference is.

You're quite right that this is a completely ridiculous argument.

A well paid slave, is still a slave.

It is simply risible to pretend that the tech-industry has not created a new generation of piece-workers. Or that conditions cannot be bad (even unacceptable) in a well-paid and otherwise privileged job.

Perhaps you simply lack insight to realise that by writing this comment you have become the thing my comment was mocking? :)

"You Gladiators, look at the purse awarded to you! And you call yourself a common slave! It is an insult to the slaves who toil in the mines!"

I can speak from experience that leftist groups who otherwise hate the tech industry do celebrate tech unions.

In the government, where taxpayers pay for growing inefficiency, unions have only grown in strength.

A worker might get paid $1,000 in compensation every time an executive hits him with a baseball bat, but it doesn't make it okay. You might later increase the payment to $3,000 per blow. But it is still assault, even though that is a lot of money to be earning for a job that anyone can do.

https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2010-dec-01-la-fg-south...