Stephen Downes

OK, I don't completely identify with this, because what I do has always been what my life is, and work has always been a way to pay for that while doing it. If that makes sense. But this I understand: "You will always have more in common with other workers than with your boss." And I know it because of the short times I have been allowed into management meetings, where I discovered (somewhat to my surprise) that the expectation was that I would shift my allegiance from my colleagues to the management group. Always, this was the expectation. And that's the thing I was never able to do. "You will always have more in common with other workers than with your boss. The best time to unionize was twenty years ago. The second-best time to unionize is today." Via Laura Hilliger.