{"id":16552,"date":"2014-03-24T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T19:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16552"},"modified":"2014-03-24T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T19:04:05","slug":"google-apple-and-other-tech-titans-wage-suppression-conspiracy-estimated-to-cover-one-million-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/03\/24\/google-apple-and-other-tech-titans-wage-suppression-conspiracy-estimated-to-cover-one-million-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Apple, and Other Tech Titans\u2019 Wage-Suppression Conspiracy Estimated to Cover One Million Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the post <a title=\"Naked Capitalism post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2014\/03\/google-apple-tech-titans-wage-suppression-conspiracy-estimated-cover-one-million-workers.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google, Apple, and Other Tech Titans\u2019 Wage-Suppression Conspiracy Estimated to Cover One Million Workers<\/strong><\/a> by Yves Smith.\u00a0 Here is a quote of a quote from the post.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u2019s more important is the political predicament that low-paid fast food workers share with well-paid hi-tech workers: the loss of power over their lives and their futures to the growing mass of concentrated power in Silicon Valley, whose tentacles are so strong now and so great, that hundreds of thousands of workers around the globe\u2014public relations and cable company employees in the British Isles, programmers and tech engineers in Russia and China (according to other documents which I\u2019ll write about soon)\u2014have their lives controlled and their wages and opportunities stolen from them without ever knowing about it, all the while being bombarded with cultural cant about the wisdom of the free market, about the efficiency of free knowledge, about the need to take personal responsibility and to blame no one but yourself for everything that happens in your life and your career.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had seen the headline a number of times and had not followed the link to read the article.\u00a0 After all, I had never worked for Google nor Apple.\u00a0 However, what they did probably affected me and all the people I have ever worked with in the industry.\u00a0 I knew that there were industry salary surveys that companies used to set salaries in ways that skirted the anti-trust laws.\u00a0 It never occurred to me that companies were blatantly breaking these laws, and that the breakage was being carried out at the highest corporate management levels possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the post Google, Apple, and Other Tech Titans\u2019 Wage-Suppression Conspiracy Estimated to Cover One Million Workers by Yves Smith.\u00a0 Here is a quote of a quote from the post. What\u2019s more important is the political predicament that low-paid fast food workers share with well-paid hi-tech workers: the loss of power over their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16553,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions\/16553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}