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What fascinates me the most about this and related issues is that there is a relentless drive towards reducing the rights and compensation for salaried workers, while increasing the rights and powers of entrenched, powerful, wealthy elites.

It is no secret that the tech industry is furious with the salaries it is forced to pay engineers. This drives billionaires batshit crazy, enough so that they're willing to pay lobbyists millions to constantly increase the number of impoverished foreign engineers imported on tenuous "work visas".

A cursory glance at history puts this in perspective. Oligarchs and feudal lords went to considerable lengths to ensure the average artisan received little more than a subsistence wage. Furthermore, taxes were for the little people, not the elites. "Government" has historically been a protection racket made for the elite, by the elite. Any delusions to the contrary have been put to rest quite conclusively [1].

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/opinion/capitalism-vs-demo...