More Ways to Stand Than a Drunk Fiddler

In the capitalist system, wealth becomes concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. Three hundred people (300 persons?) own 80% of the United States' wealth.

Before the industrial revolution (and usually that's capitalized but forget that standardized grammarian crap) technology oppressed the worker.
Which you are.
Yes you are.

Did you know that before the industrial revolution people only worked half the year? That's not just weekends and holidays on Monday, oh no.
Half the year off, half the year on.
Now we work eight days a week. Until midnight. Because commodities must be accessible and this is a service sector capitalist economy. Serve me, right now.

In the 1780s people thought they could up and leave their work whenever they wanted. So the bosses locked the doors and chained workers to their stations for the duration of their shifts. They didn't understand "work day."
Work your 40 hours, punch that clock.
Ring, ring, seven a.m.
"Putting a Highlander at the loom is like trying to put a deer in a plough."

Technology, as it improves, puts more control in workers' hands. Now there are too many workers, and we can weave whatever we want with that loom.
From here on in it's the Internet.

Where are you, now?

It empowers. You are empowered. You are an individual. It's better for creativity and invention than a Shakespearean collection on a deserted island.

Lewis Mumsford found distinctions between inventions created for the empowerment of the individual and for the authority.
For the authority we have tanks and bombs and the freeway system and malls.
For the individual we have the bicycle and rifles and the internet and the city.

Ring that cracked dusty Liberty Bell. I want to hear it.