David worked in financial software in the 1990s before getting the hell out of tech, never to return.
David was a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University — he was that Marxist college professor you hear so much about.
all of this is a wonderful summary of David’s work and background, but having worked on finance-adjacent software in the past, I felt this correlation in my bones. there’s a direct line from seeing how the fudge is made at a large financial institution to becoming a socialist educator, and it makes a lot of sense that David followed that path.