The capitalist economic system is based on the exploitation of the working (or middle) class.
The technological forces I described above don't give a damn because they are poised to lay waste to the economic output of the middle class, thus creating the kind of demand destruction only seen in catastrophic natural disasters or nuclear winter.
The owners of capital do not seem to realize that they have unleashed the Kraken, and they might as well be running outside and yelling at a tornado.
