USSR was technophilic and invented space travel.
DPRK is technophilic.
PRC is technophilic and is the world leader in many advanced technologies.
Marx analyses technological progress deeply. The increase in productive power that results from the creation and rollout of new technologies (including AI) is what raises material standards of living.
The word "material" was said therefore the consumer products can not be criticized, nor can the owners or producers of the products in a capitalist system. Concern about people fucked over under a capitalist system is against "materialism" if a consumer product is available for cheap. This is the highest form of leftism. :morshupls: