After all, the story goes, you aspire to be a manager, don’t you? You read all that entrepreneurial aspirational rah-rah boosterist leadership bilge on Medium, right? You’re not a ‘worker’, are you, sweating for your daily loaf? You have a calling, you’re chasing your dream, following your passion. You’re the next Steve Jobs, not Cesar Chavez, for Christ’s sake! You are a leader in the making, more like the millionaire running your company than the unionized cooks and clerks in the cafeteria, right?
Grad Students Unionizing: A Signal For White Collar Workers
Stowe Boyd
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This is basically the entire premise of the US and its fear of social democracy.