Thank you for the show which convinced me that those described in the "tech" middle lead fabulous civic lives by which I mean self-fabled. What won't we believe about ourselves in order to preserve certain identities. On the other hand, what resilience, what potential if awake. I suppose we're just waiting for the great period of inflation (Weimar like) to come along to awaken one's social group identity; or is that my fable?

The question of who or how to organize the left remains untouched. We all know that this is
a major obstacle in social change, but just bringing it up repeatedly does no more than to
remind us of how powerless we are. We wait for the collective left to organize but have no
clue as to how this will happen. Reed is saying what we already know too well. He discounts the effect of the groundswell of discontent seen in Wisconsin.

The interview on tech workers, gleans over how the people are able to come and go in the middle of work projects. That work is detail work which is really more like stitching buttons on the sweater, and not a part of responsible company technology. Today, International standards allow simple products to inter-operate. A cash register is connected to a network of inventory in a big box store. Most of the important features are already in the network and the cash register device. The programmers they hire as high tech just choose the printout styles, the sounds, write a device name on the cash register (cash register 5). Maybe tweak a security option or two. But I suggest that important problems like health care require constant new high tech custom design to manage newly relevant information. It's not really self reliant to be a simpleton that allows the accumulation of fortunes by providing someone with a technical potential (like a food distribution monopoly) that can exploit human need and ultimately oppress a whole society. You have to own that offense to society. A term to use could be "hit and run" technology workers which allow control of people's lives. However the insight from the interview was valuable and the author of the book was dedicated to her research, and personable. Good show!

The same people who complain about the gangs taking over cities using the Public Housing Projects whould also complain about corporate workers creating chaos for me in the food chain among other places. Keep the rif raff tech workers out of it.