A new tech rebellion is taking shape. Here’s what the Luddites can teach us

If you work for a company, making things that the company sells at a profit, you get your day's wages. If the company invests some of its profits to keep growing, you get the same day's wages as before. If you find a process improvement that increases profits even more, you get the same day's wages as before, plus maybe a one-time bonus or fixed raise.

A company with money and equipment but no workers can't do anything and won't make a profit. So why aren't the workers entitled to a share of that profit for investing their time and effort (and opportunity cost) just like the people who invest money? Even the equipment makers get a share of the profit or revenue sometimes.

Yes. See current UAW strike news.

It's striking how anything in the US that looks like a pro-worker movement gets diverted. Occupy Wall Street never came up with a workable political agenda. Black Lives Matter turned from an focused anti police brutality movement into a "wokeness" initiative so diffuse as to become a joke. Populism turned into Trumpism, centered around a leader who is a landlord. About the only real success is Fight for $15, to increase the minimum wage.