Tech’s Military Dilemma
If the source is looked at as a labor movement it would be a deeply atypical example of the bloc. Normally labor movements are all about guaranteeing good conditions and pay but such efforts have historically received chilly receptions despite obvious grounds for appealing to them like long hours and poor work-life balance. They appear to generally desire a competitive workforce and to reap the benefits of success. There are elements of that in other professions with guilds but those have operated in at times naked self-interest. It isn&#x27;t even quite &#x27;organized&#x27; labor per say - at least not yet. Even Free Software fundamentalists haven&#x27;t signed on charters refusing to work with proprietary software for instance.<p>Instead ethics are what finally seem to have pushed tech workers to unify against their employer&#x27;s raw immediate financial interests in spite of often having shares to benefit from them. It doesn&#x27;t even seem to map consistently to either &#x27;mainstream&#x27; or &#x27;geek&#x27; ethics perfectly either although growing disillusionment with the government appears to be part of it.<p>I suppose the tech political mainstream also can be considered &#x27;misfit&#x27; in other ways not fitting entirely in the typical left or right bounds.