Claims

Most tech workers don't work in Silicon Valley enjoying free kombucha and egg-freezing benefits; the majority drive for Uber or work in Amazon warehouses, many in factories in China with suicide nets, representing severe labor degradation across platform-dependent work.

Normalization of refusal to use AI systems is necessary for workers and communities; refusal can start individually but becomes powerful through collective solidarity and coordinated resistance.

About a third of artists and graphic designers have reported losing work due to the introduction of generative AI image tools; workers being rehired to correct outputs of these tools are being paid less than they would for original creation.

The German automotive industry sustains highly organized industrial working-class constituencies represented by IG Metall (the German metal working union), the most powerful trade union in the world, which has board-level co-determination representation in VW.

A longshoreman strike kicked off today based on opposition to automation—specifically, the workers' position is flat-out no more automation, no more machines, we're done, representing pure anti-automation sentiment in response to automation concerns.

Millennials are the least skilled generation ever for their age, due to either fitting negative stereotypes or entering the workforce during the 2008 financial crisis and all getting fired; Gen Z (Zoomers) are anti-social, raised by Gen X to be hyper-competitive, and want only to code—their labor supply will solve tech skills shortages.

Baby Boomer labor shortages will drive labor inflation locked in for at least the next decade, removing the specific software engineering shortage Brett mentioned as Zeihan predicted.

Software engineer labor shortages will disappear soon because baby boomers are leaving the market, taking blue-collar labor out, and the next generation (Gen Z, or 'Zoomers') are anti-social, raised by Gen X to be competitive, and have coding as their dream job.