Yup. And letting-them-eat-cake tendencies are pretty prominent on HN across the board; see every vague discussion of UBI as a condescending solution to some fut

Yup. And letting-them-eat-cake tendencies are pretty prominent on HN across the board; see every vague discussion of UBI as a condescending solution to some future problem of automation, with scarce attention paid to the real decimation of non-tech industry throughout America. People whose way of life and work have been destroyed turn to proto-fascism like clockwork throughout history, and it doesn't matter how precisely you want to define "blame" to assign responsibility to one group or another: the bad times are coming, and they're going to affect everyone.