People Are Just Numbers, Right?

I think there is a truth to people being numbers, we're just algorithms walking around with little legs. We are using less and less humans to get the needs of humans. And I guess there is that sort of sad truth that we don't need that much manpower anymore to run society. The people in power always disregard the potential impact of like one or a small group of just random people who have a thought in their head. There's nothing more powerful than individual people's ability to fuck up the works.