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This is a very interesting mix of tone-deaf, disconnected from reality, AI-hype, and naivety that is just hard to wrap ones head around. where do I start.

First, is tech workers the 99% now? Come on, look at the average salary vs national median anywhere in the world. This is just a stupid take.

Second, this sounds like the idea of "Twitter is just a couple of SQL tables and UI pages" level of "I don't understand the depth of software engineering".

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Tech workers are in the 99%, unless perhaps in the C-suite, at which point nobody would call them a "tech worker"

At least in the West, where most global SaaS revenue comes from, Tech workers are not 99%. In fact, most of them are well int the top 5-3%. Just look at median salary in your country.

The top 3-5% is part of the 99%. Only the top 1% isn't. You're stealth changing it to the top 95%; don't.

That is not how it works. 99% is everyone but top 1%. Tech workers are generally in the top 3-5%. So they are not the 99% but rather the top 3-5% and so more aligned and part of the 1% they allude to "rebel against".

This is how it works. The top 3-5% is a subset of the 99%.

> and so more aligned and part of the 1% they allude to "rebel against".

This is your fundamental misunderstanding and exactly the one that the 0.1% (or 1%) depends on maintaining. It's this misunderstanding that they've been ruthlessly exploiting to immense success. You need some exposure to how the top 1% lives and thinks, then the 0.1%, then the 0.01%. Then you'll see that those tech workers have much more in common and are much more aligned with the rest of the 99%. These are entirely different worlds.

The 99th income percentile for an individual in the USA seems to be over $500,000

indeed. the hype is the strongest when the offering is the weakest.

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