Can you blame them?
I mean, you come on here and rave about how everybody should unionize and grab their pitchforks and struggle against the machine and what-not, and then you wonder why everybody is rushing to replace you with a robot.
When they take too much, that's how they make revolutions. They only have power and wealth because we let them.
> and then you wonder why everybody is rushing to replace you with a robot.
Why not rush to replace them with robots, instead? What social function do the rich serve that can't be replaced with a badly-tuned LLM?
That has nothing to do with it. Really.
Anyone in the powerful position you describe who "earned" it, that is got themselves there somehow, is fully aware of the basis of their power and of the risk represented by it resting on workers. They will try to replace them, regardless of whether or not they are currently at that moment agitating for unionization.