> laborers who (by definition) do not own the productive capacity
Is this really true for a job like SWE where all you need to do the job is a laptop and internet?
Is this really true for a job like SWE where all you need to do the job is a laptop and internet?
On top of that they have huge sway with governments and a hand in control of cultural production.
It's easier to start a software company than an oil company because it takes way less fixed capital but the same rules as the rest of political economy apply on the whole.
The feeling that tech work is mostly mental and somehow "immaterial," like we're just beyond all that concrete meatspace stuff, is really an illusion.