very good to know , thank you <| sep |> Short answer no . But you should check out Kroker for this one . Specifically ' Data Trash The Theory of the Virtual Class ' and ' The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism Heidegger , Nietzsche Marx ' Representatives of the virtual class may claim that it is time for a real austerity budget aka social disintegration . But this means bludgeoning the working and the middle class and shifting the economic pie so that more money goes into high tech industries , and there is no discussion of the consequences of this . For example , what happens when there is no work for much of the population ? Virtualization means moving to a society that requires less labour and more and more people become surplus . More people become a surplus class and today there are some countries which could be considered to be surplus countries . Kroker ' s critique is that under the guise of being progressive and promoting creativity , community , and a better life , the virtual class ignores and destroys positive human values . The political and economic consequences of this are are to hurt people and communities through the austerity and deficit cutting measures that have become so widespread aka social disintegration . According to Kroker , the key to understanding the new information economy , is it functions not only as virtual capital , or as an extension of logic of traditional financial capital , but as a form of capitalism that can so quickly achieve its ascendant historical apogee because it is only derivatively about capitalism , and essentially about metaphysics . In the digital age , Kroker argues , the language of metaphysics can be dropped and pass into oblivion because ours is the age of technology as completed metaphysics and metaphysics is noweverywhere as the new digitallyaugmented reality . Metaphysics is completed , that is , because the carcass of external historical drives , from capitalist to religionist , drop away , leaving only the edifice of a fullyrealized technical society that has Heideggerian ' aimlessness ' as its aim and using up as its method . KrokerFINAL . pdfHope that helps .