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We should be specific when we say "tech", whether we mean the fascist overlords, or some kid who works at an Apple Store. The folks who organized unions at Amazon and Google are people, too, and are more _tech_ than any of the tycoons.

it does seem that the people referred to as tech are what I would mostly refer to as private equity types

I wrote very briefly about this a year or so ago: www.skeptocapital.com/p/who-counts...

I agree with your point, but agriculture also works this way, even more so than tech. "Farmers", as a rule, refers to landowners - aka, landlords - and not to the folks who actually perform the work on farms.

The commonality is the equity industry. Funders want to be able to take over for IC workers and then say "yeah, I did that!" like the way Musk does. As in, SpaceX is Musk and not the people doing actual rocketry/software work while he's on a ketamine bender. Same with farming, same with web media