How do you guys deal with the realization that by making this disruptive technology, you'll be destroying their happiness?
If technology creates new sectors of the economy by providing insight it is beneficial.
Happiness is a construct and subjective. One might say happiness is going to a newly gentrified section of town and buying shoes made in Italy, another person my say that's crazy and prefer to keep rents low in town so local cobblers can afford to make basic shoes.
The best definition is to ask people what they want, but usually people try to tell people what they should want.
If you are not, on balance, creating more happiness than you're destroying, perhaps you should rethink what you're doing.
the real problem is not moving fast enough, in not being able to develop fast enough, in not learning fast enough.
for instance, unemployment is both caused by and a failure of the speed of development. if a person is unemployed, the problem they have is not being able to transition to a new or different industry because they can't learn fast enough.
arguing to keep the status quo is arguing to "slow down". And it's usually a disguised argument of sentimentality or of a vested interest.