The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

The extreme difficulty of scaling production of new technology is not well understood. It's 1000% to 10,000% harder than making a few prototypes. The machine that makes the machine is vastly harder than the machine itself.