That’s a good point, insofar as we should not give people a pass just because they have a sense of unease. But I think the parent comment still stands in that t

That’s a good point, insofar as we should not give people a pass just because they have a sense of unease. But I think the parent comment still stands in that these reactions can be canaries or indications of an unwell society. In your example, of course, this unwellness itself directly manifests as source of the unease. But follow that pathology one step deeper and perhaps there is insight to be gained? What I am sure of is that we have left our sociopolitical and socioeconomic systems to their own devices without carefully examining their impacts for a long time now. This has left them rife with technical debt and exploitable bugs that some parasitic elements of society are using automation to aggressively exploit. I’m not saying that engineering them will have a better outcome, but perhaps if we study them with real rigour it is possible that one day it might. We would do well to remember that these constructs exist to serve humanity, and not the other way around.