As unions decline, inequality rises
I think this is a good article for tech workers to read to provide perspective on our place in the tech economy (particularly Americans): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;organizing.work&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;there-is-something-missing-from-tech-worker-organizing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;organizing.work&#x2F;2020&#x2F;12&#x2F;there-is-something-missing-f...</a><p>particularly this part: 
&gt; Early on in my own career in the industry, I felt guilty about making a “good” salary. Why did I deserve to make more money than a teacher or a nurse? Of course, I don’t — they deserve a lot more too. But if I was making less it would go straight into the pockets of investors, not other workers. Tech workers’ labor has made six of the world’s ten richest people, and today computing and the internet are an integral part of every industry. Although some workers are highly paid, the differential between investor profits and employee salary is as stark as in any other industry, because workers are not organized.<p>it&#x27;s true that tech workers frequently make good money and we should be grateful for that, but when our industry is producing oligarchs like Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, it means that they are profiting from the things that tech workers produce.  It&#x27;s how inequality is increased.  It&#x27;s no coincidence that the rise of the tech economy has coincided with American inequality rising sharply.