One benefit is stronger labor protection from layoffs like these.
Having labor be more powerful can also help when execs push for morally questionable projects.
Lastly, FAANG employees are working class.
Having labor be more powerful can also help when execs push for morally questionable projects.
Lastly, FAANG employees are working class.
Incredibly well-paid working class, but working class all the same.
Everything else is an implementation detail.
No you can’t argue that because it’s stupid. A typical google software engineer will have made enough that in their early 30s they can quit/retire and live the rest of their life at at least the same standard of living as that cleaning lady (almost none of them find that an acceptable standard but that’s far beyond food and a place to sleep)
These are not similar circumstances by any means.
Of course, that affects the cleaning lady more, but the core theft and the exploitative power dynamics they both are affected by are the same.
One of the tricks capital uses to keep control is to pit us against each other. Only through solidarity throughout the entire working class we can affect real change.
At least a migrant has the option of returning to their home country with a network of family and old friends; natives are stuck jobless and with high cost of living or choosing to uproot and migrate to a new country with lower cost of living, becoming migrants themselves. There is no stress-free ride for anyone.