This isn’t harsh at all. As I’ve commented before (but this time as well I do no have the receipts/links), it’s been reported that highly paid programmers in the US also brought in a ton of profit; it was not at all the case that their employers had some thin profit margins because the labor was expensive to them. We talking one million USD profit for a 100K USD salary.

They didn’t even earn anything close to what they were worth. According to Marx’ Labor Theory of Value anyway.

However the dice fall now, one of the possible outcomes is that the tech billionaires take that 100K USD for themselves. The very deserving individuals whose job is to sit their arses on automation assets.

Meanwhile workers from other sectors can gloat about how they are now in the same boat as them. The boat of accepting your ever-meagre reality.