&gt;What&#x27;s happening now is that &quot;software is eating the world&quot;, and displacing the existing networks of production throughout the economy. That&#x27;s leading to a class system of &quot;those who own the data&quot; (entrepreneurs &amp; executives of large tech companies) =&gt; &quot;those who work with the data&quot; (software engineers, and likely hardware engineers &amp; material scientists in the near future) =&gt; &quot;everybody else&quot;.<p>Unexplained data: $3500&#x2F;month one-bedroom apartments in San Francisco.  If technologists are on top of the hierarchy, why can&#x27;t they get society to give them easier access to better housing?<p>Counter-hypothesis: because the rentier-owners of land, natural resources, and financial assets are actually still the ones on top.