It’s good to be suspicious, a healthy dose of critical thinking is well warranted.

But I would advice you consider that everyone and their mother was encouraged to “become the next Bill gates” if they’d showed any acumen in computers at all since about 1985. Also consider that working on a piece of software or infrastructure is often that piece; you don’t always get to see the big picture.

Overall I think this is a good thing; I guess it really matters how this union is controlled. Will it really be in the hands of the majority, etc