If you believe that you're going to be sad when someone shows you a graph of income inequality over time. That oppression pre-dates software is not in question.

If you believe that you're going to be sad when someone shows you a graph of income inequality over time. That oppression pre-dates software is not in question. Are you attempting to assert that modern surveillance and carceral state either don't benefit from software or are not examples of institutionalized oppression? You are, of course, aware that the US has the highest number (by count and % of population) of incarcerated citizens of any country on the planet, and that minorities are disproportionally targeted, right?