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Re:The Brief Origins of May Day by anovikov on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:27AM (#43857384)
Because tech jobs are one of the few career lines that create a realistic path to passive income => becoming an "evil of capitalism". In fact, life outcomes that fall between "failure and poverty in old age" and "generational passive income from capital", are infrequent in the tech industry, at least from the people i know.
Re:The Brief Origins of May Day by pseudocomposer on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:31AM (#43857423)
Those who fall between the two are usually those who didn’t have a family nest egg to start with (ie, their parents were factory workers rather than accountants).
Re:The Brief Origins of May Day by alabastervlog on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:50AM (#43857636)
... Unions would be a great way to fight for reductions in anti-moonlighting rules and over-broad IP claims, to protect and broaden that path.