Of course, much of that is a matter of design, and since commerical corporate design horizons are governed by compound interest on interest rates in financial markets, and commercial corporations are constructed to be antagonistic to labor income, placing so many of our fundamental technology design decisions in the hands of commercial corporations is something that we have to think through.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.