[Barrin92]

>In order to believe the doomsayers, you have to ignore the entire history of the industrialized world

The first consequence of major technological revolution, the post industrial era enabled the biggest wars human history had yet seen because our societies where technologically advanced but spiritually depraved. Modernity gave us amazing technology but also totalitarianism we had never seen before.

Yes, doomsayers are always numerous but just because people are crying wolf a lot doesn't mean that wolves aren't real. The image of a society in which hundreds of millions of people are devoid of purpose, live on subsistence social welfare and are at best employed to keep them occupied is a very scary one. And it might very well happen.