Automation isolates workers physically yet enables them to organise via the cloud.

Evidence

Technofeudalism erects a great new barrier to mobilisation against it. But it also bestows a great new power upon those who dare dream of a coalition to topple it. The great new barrier is the physical isolation of cloud serfs and cloud proles from one another. We interact with and are subject to cloud capital via our individual screens, via our personal mobile phones, via the digital devices that monitor and manage Amazon warehouse workers. Collective action is made harder when people have fewer opportunities to come together. But herein lies the great power that cloud capital presents to its potential rebels: a capacity to build coalitions, organise and take action via the cloud. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 756

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the classic Marx-Engels claim that industrial concentration (in factories) is what enables proletarian organisation — here a networked, dispersed workforce is both the obstacle and the opportunity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 756