Pirates have something else planned for you. It is sometimes asserted that technology is a dynamic force for change. Worse than crap, this is a deadly trap, set by Marxists. Technology flows from great laboratories and industrial enterprises, all of which are tightly controlled by statists. Pirates fight with old weapons, discarded and stolen junk, most of which is obsolete.
Scoundrels are clean and decent men.
I've worked for a bunch of them, and I respected them all. I prefer not to name names. You'd be on the right track if you said none. They are superbly talented. But they aren't working in any capacity other than that of pure scoundrel, desperate to scam enough loot to make a movie.