And when you suddenly have time, real, unstructured time, you start asking questions that never quite fit into sprint planning or quarterly OKRs.
I stopped working like >20yrs ago and did ask a lot of questions since then. I saw where this all will go to, and now we're there, even worse than imagined. Made a bitter old fart.
And those medieval lords were nowhere near what we have today. Not even near the ballpark. They were rich beyond imagination for the average Joe, but today's billionaires are so vastly further away. They've grown so mighty, there is nothing left to do against. The systems are hardened against any resistance and there isn't even one.
As long as the lower class is kept on their toes and always enjoy the presence of multiple swords of Damokles next to the constant existential dread, it will stay like this. The masses couldn't even connect as they all use tools that are under big tech control. And it won't get better. The more people work, the less they (have time to) question things. And they all just do whatever the others are doing. And those do what the media tells them.
My point? I don't know. It all sucks and, beside motivated speeches and opinions, we don't have the means to fight back.
And if I wouldn't drown in money and time, I probably wouldn't even have written this or ever thought about it, and would just use WhatsApp on my crapple or google phone, get from my leased apartment I could never buy, into my leased, remote-controlled, car to get to a work I dread and never earn a worthy amount until I die and my family couldn't even cash up my funeral without debt.