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The pyramid of backs that our most worshiped Lords step upon is crumbling. This is both a good thing and a bad thing.
The Good: The ratio of exploited:unexploited is reduced because much of the work needed to carry out the whims our Lords is replaced with automated machines. That is, we're careening towards a post-work soceity.
The Bad: The previously exploited have nowhere to go. We don't own houses, we do not have the means to easily secure our own food production, and the laws are written in such a way that any attempt to secure a community effort for all of the above are shutdown pretty quickly. We're going to be fleeced, and then we're going to be left to die. It doesn't need to be like this, but somehow it is.
The Middle: Managers are becoming aware that the gap between them and their exploited employees is much much smaller than the gap between them and the Lords they serve. That is, they're becoming just as replaceable as we are, and they know it, and the fear drives them to treat us like peasants so that even if they're no longer useful to their Lords, they are hoping that their loyalty will at least be worth something (spoiler: it won't).
"...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” -- Steinbeck
Something I keep coming back to when I think about shit like this: if the law does not protect the people it binds, then why should the people bound by law be obligated to obey a law that doesn't protect them? In the face of such manifest injustice, illegalism seems almost reasonable.