Hey do you know keith thompson? Designer for some very creepy stuff, and likes World War 1 and 2 era mechas a lot: https://www.keiththompsonart.com/robots.html

Hey, this is called capitalism and its prediction was done by many many intellectuals (and thoughtful “workers” etc.). but everyone dismissed it as communism and dangerous leftist blablabla. And while liberals could have helped leftists, they were watching technology-porn and thinking everything will sort itself out…

it makes sense, because if you look at the witcher landscapes, as a coder for example, you might think a lot about giving those artist a price for their beautiful fjords...