What we're heading towards is an advent of a new kind of feudalism. Margret Mitchell was full of shit when she claimed that the old system of lords and ladies, rulers and serfs, was gone forever. The 21st century will see a handful of innovators controlling an army of scripts, landing pages, drones, or autonomous cars, rulers with subordinates who will never get tired, never revolt, never do less than their best. There will never be any Ghandi or MLK to free this new group of "oppressed" workers, any more than there was a movement to end the oppression of printing presses and sewing machines. All to satisfy the hunger of a working class which has the same needs and wants and hopes and dreams as ever, but, for the first time, not a single marketable skill that they can offer (which performs better than a robot/drone/block of code) to satisfy those needs. Today we have a dichotomy between the free and the burdened, the well paid and the well worn, but those Amazon employees should thank God on their knees after reading this, because in 25 years there will be no wake-up call for people like them, there will be no alternate route. There won't be anything at all. Whether that will herald some sort of revolution or apocalypse, I don't know, but I know there's no way in hell that I would look a young person in the face today and approve of their going to work beside machines rather than being the fastlaner who buys and purposes them to free her or his time. One has an incredible opportunity to make history. The other will be history. It's only a matter of time.