> politician won't care

they dont care because nobody has a real gut feel affinity for computer programmers or the work, the sort of feeling that is required to animate somebody to action. it's never been a profession with any esteem, and the field never professionalized in the past 60 years, which is a shame, because we now see the outcome.

Politicians would deeply care about a specialized highly paid workforce that was politically active, but what we have is mostly a do-nothing industry that has nearly 100% ceded to their corporate masters.

I mean look at what the coal mining industry is able to get and their numbers are quite small. There's more fast food workers at Wendy's than coal miners, but something tells me that Congress doesn't care about the baconator over rolling coal.

Start doing some advocacy work and this can easily change.