In the Matrix programmers from 1999 can overthrow their managers by coming to understand social control and learning Kong Fu.
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By 2018 programmers know Yoga and Krav Maga but they are less aware of power.
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In 2018 programmers expect to be well compensated for their unquestioning obedience to the class that wields words.
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The managers, the lawyers, the journalists and the organizers of the world have triumphed over the incipient codetariat.
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In this Aristotle is vindicated over Marx and Rand. The ability to shape material or digital reality, is a different kind of skill than managing people.
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In the age of social media it seems like programmers or data scientists could sieze and control newly digitalized social life. But to do so they would have to win at office politics. They would have to learn to read people and character. They would have to learn words.
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They would have to see the Matrix and use power themselves.
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