[Olog-hai]

[T]he government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production.

— Friedrich Engels, 1877

Just like this was destined to go wrong, everything patterned after it does as well.

[dfwgator]

[T]he government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. — Friedrich Engels, 1877

Or as Donald Fagen put it:

A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young