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The times were never easier for the laptop class to get self employed and leaving the hamster wheel.

(Besides,i noticed, that on HN, where a lot of people program machines to do the work for them, profiting from the productivity gains, have an affinity to quoting Marx. I do not know why that is.)

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You're greatly overstating the pipeline in education, knowledge, attention, and effort that's required to get to that point. And to stay there.

If it were easy there wouldn't be corporations.

They never said it’s easy, just that it’s easier. That’s true.

(It's almost as if it's because they're able to differentiate between a machine and a human being.)

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