I appreciate your feedback John, but I believe you have missed the point of my juxtaposition between 19th C. and today.

What I've been pointing out is that at that time, much like our own, technology was vastly reshaping society, by changing the nature of social relationships, how people lived and the nature of work.

The moneyed classes bought the means of production to dominate the economy and enrich themselves at the expense of the working class. It took the labour movements a while to cotton on to the reality of their exploitation; just as it has taken us a while to realized how badly we've been swindled by big tech and big finance.

The corporations we see ruling the world today claim their ancestry in the 19th century, for this was the inception of the very concept of the global corporation.

Sure tech has advanced a lot since then, but they considered their time a tech revolution also and it many ways it was.

Of course in the span of 200 years, our lives have improved, but that is thanks to innovation - not anything capitalists themselves specifically did. Most new technologies have used government or public funded research to get started, then as now.

Just because children don't have to work anymore and we havea 40 hour work week does not mean we are not being exploited, because the fundamental relationship between employer and employee has not changed at all in those 200 years. Employees are still in a serf-like position and have been stripped of their power and the fruit of their own labour.