An interesting framing between "Virtuals" and "Physicals", but this is perhaps an over-simplification. Are doctors and nurses not "Physicals"? They deal with

An interesting framing between "Virtuals" and "Physicals", but this is perhaps an over-simplification. Are doctors and nurses not "Physicals"? They deal with physical people every day (in fact, they perform "physicals" on people) and yet I'd guess they don't feel a strong affinity with the truckers (supporting neither their cause nor their tactics). Also, I think the analysis downplays what is somewhat unique about this protest, which is that the truckers have access to large objects which can cause disproportionate disruption in arbitrary locations. Hospitality staff, for example, don't have that tool at their disposal, and I assume they are more likely to live in cities (the land of the "Virtuals"), despite doing physical and noticeable work (which would align them with the truckers, under the article's thesis). Would they even want to carry out a disruptive protest if there were a (similarly justifiable) vaccine mandate applied to their industry? The article's lede was therefore probably buried at the end, therefore, where it says: > So expect the Virtuals of the ruling class to double down on trying to exert control, moving with all haste to develop new and innovative methods of information management and coercion to try to eliminate every human vulnerability from the machine. Self-driving truck startups are about to have an excellent next funding round.