> Modern computing is inconceivable without U.S. imperialism > Some technologies are class traitors, you could say. "Wanting a different future is stupid becau

> Modern computing is inconceivable without U.S. imperialism > Some technologies are class traitors, you could say. "Wanting a different future is stupid because the tools you use were made by people with different value systems" is not a good argument. If I can work at a FAANG and have home ownership in a reasonable location (flyover state, but not in DR Horton suburban hell) be a pipe dream, then I must imagine how impossible comfort and security is for people working real jobs. From there socialism is the obvious conclusion. If the cold war was about determining which system was better, socialism (we can argue that the USSR was actually state capitalist but whatever) or liberalism, then I would argue that when the wall came down, the American ruling class thought that liberalism had won. But the thing about ideas is that you cant ever really kill them. You have to constantly convince the next generation that your system is worth buying into. The arguments in favor of capitalism keep getting weaker and weaker. Why is it citizen's fault for looking at a raw deal and saying "no thanks". The ruling class should instead be sweetening the deal.