> It looked like a win-win, under a certain angle, back in the day This isn't really true except for perhaps the most naive sort of person. It was well unders

> It looked like a win-win, under a certain angle, back in the day This isn't really true except for perhaps the most naive sort of person. It was well understood by most folks that there were going to be winners and losers. You can't gut entire segments of the workforce in less than a generation and not expect extreme pain. It's just those people had very little political power. Exactly zero people in actual power are genuinely surprised by the outcome here. Perhaps they are at the political backlash and how powerful it became, but that's about it.