I feel a bit like this with the whole firestorm around AI artwork as well— it's been a big wakeup call to people who have been creating using technology-assisted workflows for decades, but still felt in their gut that they were bringing something unique to the table and were therefore "safe" from being completely automated away. That hitting the button for magic eraser or magic lasso or magic color correction was someone okay in a way that the AI itself sitting in the driver's seat was not.

Now that's been reduced to pointing out minor flaws that the next generation of AI artists will trivially resolve, and sharing memes beseeching other humans to participate in a boycott.

There's real pain and angst there, and I don't want to be callous about it with a comparison to buggy-whip manufacturers or something. But I wish the participants in these types of discussions were able to zoom out a bit and see that there's a larger societal issue here around automation, and that the real solution is going to be rethinking the basic economics of how we distribute wealth in a time of extraordinary machine-driven productivity— productivity that is no longer just about assembly lines and primary industries, but now also includes an increasing bite out of realms previously classified as "knowledge work".