I totally understand that fear, and at my last job I felt the same way. And obviously you have to be careful, my personal level of tolerance is sharing industry secrets but not ones that are specific to my company or its clients. I really do think the important task is determining from a process standpoint for each important industry, how do we get input resource plus labor and capital resource to equal the desired product, but in a way removed from capitalism? Each productive industry has its own answer, and those answers can only be come to through talking to the people doing these jobs and understanding the processes from a higher level.

Regardless, DM me if you'd be willing to chat a bit about your work, I really want to talk to other engineers about their luck with organizing, generally the political leanings of each, how open the workforces are to anything not reactionary/lib? Totally no worries if not, if I was reading this I would totally worry I was a fed or something lol

EDIT: Personally I've been contemplating starting a project of interviewing workers, asking how their work is organized (no specifics), what their firm takes as input from what kind of other firm), what they produce, if they feel their work is important, etc. I feel that left circles have avoided the labor conversations for a while now, always approaching from a much more holistic level, but these details need to be discussed. No one knows what anyone else does anymore, what anyone else's work contributes to and how it relates.