Jack Ma Thinks High-Tech Workers Are Dumb as Bricks (2019?)

The hitch with unionising is that people can't do deals that increase their individual salaries, which is antithetical to the ambitious A-types that are rushing into the field nowadays. I also suspect that software people are more allergic to nonperforming, less-capable workers getting paid the same as them, and more importantly, more experienced workers (i.e., older workers) getting more than them. There will be too much infighting for unions to be successful, given how opinionated and stubborn most software people are. To make things worse, the field is not very standardized, unlike, say nurses, pilots, policemen, assembly-line workers or teachers. That also encourages schisms. The only other creative profession that can serve as a model is perhaps the writers who are a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. Without good writing, there is no entertainment, and writers are aware of this fact and have capitalized on it well.

The core of the article:

> High-tech products--software and hardware--are absolutely crucial to the functioning of the entire world economy. Finances, military, commerce, manufacturing, agriculture, and everything else depends entirely upon high-tech workers doing their jobs and doing them well.

> So consider: If high-tech workers went on strike (to, say, demand paid overtime), it would bring the entire world to its knees within 24 hours. Furthermore, high-tech workers have social media, which makes organizing unions and strikes incredibly simple.

> ...

> So there it is. Jack Ma thinks the most powerful people in the world--high-tech workers--are so stupid that they haven't the slightest inkling that they can totally call the shots and get whatever they want.