>> The richest people in the world are telling everyone to get onboard with technology that is determined to make a lot of those same people's jobs redundant.
The richest people I know are trying to convince everyone
1. There is a "worker shortage" in an attempt to bring in immigrant workers whom they can boss around and keep on a leash
2. That "AI is taking jobs" so you cannot point the people who are really taking jobs -- policy makers
3. There is "low unemployment" to perpetuate the myth that the economy is great
4. "Anyone can make it" while their nepo-babies get back-door access to jobs at top firms and claim "they worked hard up the ranks"
I agree, I think this is a longer way to say what I was feeling. It's a rigamarole by people with too much money. If they had less money, they wouldn't be able to do it. So at the end of the day the root cause to me is the inequality. it allows special treatment and the ability to manipulate our daily life (through social apps, news, etc) in a way that they are completely insulated from, feeling no pain whatsoever. Huge policy failure to let so few people have so much influence
The richest people I know are trying to convince everyone
1. There is a "worker shortage" in an attempt to bring in immigrant workers whom they can boss around and keep on a leash
2. That "AI is taking jobs" so you cannot point the people who are really taking jobs -- policy makers
3. There is "low unemployment" to perpetuate the myth that the economy is great
4. "Anyone can make it" while their nepo-babies get back-door access to jobs at top firms and claim "they worked hard up the ranks"