“Real wealth manifests itself, rather – and large industry reveals this – in the monstrous disproportion between the labor time applied, and its product, as well as in the qualitative imbalance between labor, reduced to a pure abstraction, and the power of the production process it superintends.” In other words, for a 19th century scholar, the ease of both labor and the power with which labor commands in massive machinery provides some indication to actual wealth. "About 645,000,000 results (0.74 seconds)."
Massive surplus labor no longer directly develops general wealth “just as the non-labor of the few [no longer directly develops] the general powers of the human head.” Trickle-down doesn't work. But now, the floodgates are open–knowledge and information, once a restricted luxury for the non-worker, is affordable for all.