If you are a man of law (MoL) you are supposed to protect factory workers. The same way Moses protected the people of Israel by giving them the Ten Commandments. You can fancy yourself that communism is the period of time Moses left the people alone with Aaron. Socialism is whatever comes after the Golden Calf.
Back to the main point: If you gotta inherit a MoL you are supposed to do so as well. That is, to protect factory workers. But you can be liberal about defining factory workers. So how about the software industry? and how about adult content?
Trade makes it even more abstract. A shopping mall, in some sense, is a MoL. The more knowledgable the place becomes (for example, by repeatedly failing to re-invent the Golden Calf) the more likely the place sacrifices itself for the group like a policeman would do.
From a modern perspective, the Golden Calf is selfish love: "I care what people think of me"