Red is the traditional color of painted wooden structures pretty much everywhere, think of Chinese temples for example. Black tar is another common one. Cave paintings typically used red too.

Good, with a caveat. Being a liberal, the writer has had to coin a novel term, "technofeudalism" (bad) to oppose it to "capitalism" (good).

We, of course, understand that all this "digital arm-breaking" is just monopoly capitalism, which is just natural evolution of the capitalist system, not an aberration.