The kind of people that develop advanced software are not that kind that unionize.

The focus of unions have generally been blue collar workers, not to mention and the group that could do that would have been a small close knit group.

In the long run, it may have worked - VW is now a decent competitor with Tesla on EVs.

because democracy is fundamentally broken, isn't it obvious? We keep voting for people that give us what we want, not what we need.