Reply #111: I am one of those "IT and tech" people and you are right. Both Ms. Greyhound

[Greyhound]

and myself were in IT. Both of us had our careers taken from us and both of us worked independently (years before we met) to both stop the off-shoring of our manufacturing base and later to organize IT workers.

She comes from a blue-collar union family, so lived the destruction of the 80s and 90s. I came from what became the reich-wing elite, and saw it being done from that perspective. My mom "divorced" her family because she would no abide what they do as a matter of course, so I had an interesting perspective of most of it.

The bottom line is, as generalizations go, you are absolutely right. While IT was not a huge field when they came for the manufacturing and farming sectors, there were few calls (actually none in my experience) for solidarity with the people having their lives taken from them, and later in the early-mid 90s, when the writing was on the wall, it was impossible to get any support from our colleagues for organizing ourselves to stop it.

Ironically, between our efforts to organize and the fact that we are both over 40, we are now unemployable in our fields.

I believe most of the objections you will hear are due to guilt.