Tech workers are a weird choice for "princes of labor," but for decades they've enjoyed unparalleled labor power, expressed in high wages, lavish stock grants, and whimsical campuses with free laundry and dry-cleaning, gourmet cafeterias, and kombucha on tap:
Whoa. That's not the experience I had.
Since graduating software engineering in 2008 I've had a lot of trouble finding a job from a company that didn't want to screw me over on salary and work hours. It's only recently that I was able to negotiate my salary to something decent.
Not everyone works at Google.