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> This is why unions are so important

My favorite counter-example is a collective action of about a thousand medical workers in SF Hospital demanding from Facebook an increase in censorship (and the censorship is impossible without surveillance).

Why do you think a union will support your ethical choices? And if it would not - you’d have to quit the company and the union, loosing not only your salary, but also union fees.



The marginal cost of union fees is trivial in comparison to a salary.

A union gives you more choices than "surveil or resign".

And if the union fails you because it says "no, you have to surveil" then you can still resign.


This is an argument against democracy itself. If you don't think democracy would work for you, then I can't convince you a union would either.




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