How #xz could have been avoided:
1. During the 2013-2018 boom when tech workers as a class had maximum leverage, used *some* of the energy organizing broad tech unions and guilds instead of negotiating for fuck-you money and pulling up the ladder by telling other trades to “learn 2 code noobs”
2. craft broadly populist multi-union legislation to raise taxes for “infra and natsec basic income fund”, for a living stipend to infra workers: railroad, steelworkers, electricians, OSS maintainers
James Wu /
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2024-03-31 01:27:32
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2024-03-31 01:27:32Event JSON
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