The aristocracy represented the ossified capriciousness of wealth distribution that Paine confronted in pre-­revolutionary America; Engels denounced the horrors imposed on workers by industrialists in nineteenth-­century England. The leaders of technology capitalism fall into a similar category today. Their much-­lauded intellect and innovations are directed toward inflating and jealously guarding the wealth they accumulate and helping their fellow captains of industry to do the same. They are indifferent to the miseries they inflict on countless people; they see themselves as noble individuals pursuing their divine right to make money. Yet this is only possible through the exploitation of labor. Which also means that organized labor still holds the power to transform society.