One could have said listed those sort of things about any stage of the computer industry going all the way back to ENIAC calculating artillery tables, mainframe

One could have said listed those sort of things about any stage of the computer industry going all the way back to ENIAC calculating artillery tables, mainframe computerization putting people out of work like (human) calculators, bookkeepers, and file clerks while making fortunes for Silicon Valley's original founders in the process, and, stretching a bit, IBM tabulators' infamous role in WW2 Germany but everyone turned a blind eye to it. Observing the situation with a jaundiced eye, one might wonder why all this concern suddenly emerges now?