[kakacik]

> the tech people who told people to do computer science in college are now seeing automation come for their jobs. And now it's somehow an emergency worth addressing.

You are in tech mostly forum, is it really that hard to grok why we discuss this more than other professions? Most folks out there are just happy with llms that they do a better search or help them do bureaucracy more efficiently and don't bother with it further.

[jmyeet]

Therein lies the problem with hyper-individualism. It's not a virtue. It's just selfish. And short-sighted. It's the basis of First They Came [1].

It's even worse for tech people because tech fundamentally is about systems. Society is a system.

The reaons some of us care so much about how the least of us are affected by these changes is because the fabric of society depends on so many people and it hurts all of us when society falls apart. You don't have to be disabled to care about disabled rights, for example, because everybody is one incident away from being disabled. Just look at long Covid.

This isn't some Darwinian game where the "strong" "win". Or at least it doesn't have to be.

[1]: https://hmd.org.uk/resource/first-they-came-by-pastor-martin...