This is a fantastic essay, not just about the web, really, but technological or industrial artefacts in general. I’ve often mused on my role as a developer, th

This is a fantastic essay, not just about the web, really, but technological or industrial artefacts in general. I’ve often mused on my role as a developer, thinking really that we’re just another set of gatekeepers. Within normal economic relations at work, it seems we’re often taking agency from users and gifting power to others. This isn’t anything new, and we need to not be blinded by technocratic ideas of efficiency or technological progress, as if they’re not deeply political terms. It’s very telling that we’re regurgitating Keynes’ idea, from the mid 20th century, that growth, technology and automation will liberate us from work, when it’s done nothing of the sort.