This is not merely a deeply wise post, but a necessary one, and one that all of us, but especially advocates of AI technologies, need to deeply internalize. We

This is not merely a deeply wise post, but a necessary one, and one that all of us, but especially advocates of AI technologies, need to deeply internalize. We as an industry have brought immiseration as a primary product to the developed world for quite a while. Shoving human beings "below the API" (coined by Peter Reinhardt, but I heard it first from Venkatesh Rao) is what has gotten the richest in the tech space paid, and the idea that we can adjust our pince-nez and hmm-hmm at the people being actively harmed for not being sufficiently calm about the incipient transition from immiseration to active ruin is a silly idea when it isn't outright insulting.