It's starting to feel like the point of automation was to turn a small group of people into anointed 24-hour career slaves who can dream of joining the 1% if th

It's starting to feel like the point of automation was to turn a small group of people into anointed 24-hour career slaves who can dream of joining the 1% if they can keep up with the machine, and leave everybody else to scrape by with unstable, meaningless and often inhuman work but tons of media to consume.