Swords of Damocles

> Are we the thread or the sword or the person sitting under it? […] This answer is clear. […W]e have survived, thrived, and progressed while hanging by a thread.

So the laptop class are the sword, put there by Dionysius (the political class), ready to fall on Damocles (the working class, whose sword, tellingly, isn’t owned or controlled by Damocles at all)?

If so, methinks the classical Greeks understood Marx far better than I’d ever have given them credit for.