>>And then came the greedy grifters. They invested money not just to get returns (they could've gotten returns on any other established field of business), but to gamble for a chance of crazy high returns. They thought software has near-zero marginal cost. They started building walled gardens, to extract rent from users. ... So the advertisement business grew, and with it came the largest assault on the privacy of the general public ever. ... Then they realized they could use this game politics itself. ... then they realized they don't want to pay the workers anymore who support the software. So they turned against the workers.
And organizing a strike may help. But even assuming the best case, your idea spreads like wildfire and 80% of all tech workers touch no keyboards starting mid-November, the likely result is management makes a few changes and lies they are far larger and more permanent than they are in reality, and back to extraction-mining the rest of humanity for private profit.
Perhaps the very best thing would be for tech workers to self-organize to create an EFFECTIVE alternative to the extractive social media currently plaguing society. A new way for people to stay in touch that is easier to use and migrate to than Xitter/BlueSky/Farcebook/etc. (and no, Mastadon ain't it; wish it were, but...). When I try to get people off those sites, they object to not having an as-easy way to stay in touch with people they connect with. Hitting them at the root of their interests —profits— is what will hurt them, and free us.