But of course now that the tech of choice is AI and it's threatening everyone's jobs and status it's a bad thing.
There's a lesson about people there.
Could be. But it could also just be a Goomba fallacy.
"There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.
There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.
There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely."
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