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I think it's more than just ideological, there's a material reason why the tech industry has this tendency. Software in the 21st century is all about obscuring labor. Taking the worker and hiding them from view, creating the illusion of surplus and service conjured through a user interface. I suspect this role has kinda overtaken the more straightforward use of computers; machines for calculating, tracking, and transmitting information. Click a button, package on the porch. What happened in between the click and delivery? Don't worry about that. There goes a self-driving car!^[remotely supervised and course corrected] Of course, when you know to look for it, it's obvious all the human labor is still there. But these guys don't think about that, don't know to look for it. The mythology and the obfuscation make for a vicious cycle.
Tech produces real products and fake speculation vessels simultaneously, because as much as financialized neoliberalism wants a world without workers, it’s not possible to worship fake numbers without a real computer to do the math.
Yeah there’s definitely a “pay no attention to the gig worker behind the curtain” element to it. However, I think it goes beyond that to anything that could impede capital; so much of the rhetoric of fintech boils down to “let us ignore financial regulations because we can’t fully unleash the awesome power of our innovation if we have to follow them.”