> All of this has me really questioning how and where I want to apply my skills for the remainder of my career. It's entirely possible to create technology tha

> All of this has me really questioning how and where I want to apply my skills for the remainder of my career. It's entirely possible to create technology that works the other way, such as inventing the power-loom that replaced expensive hand-weavers with larger numbers of cheap migrant laborers, spawning the Luddite movement to smash the machines to protect "good jobs". There are surely lots of modern equivalents that replace the expensive few with larger numbers of cheap workers, simultaneously creating value and spreading wealth out. It could be something like software usability, or a process that lets locals produce something easily that they used to have to go to a central supplier for.