Also, there have been plenty of awful things caused by technological progress. Tons of death and poverty was created by the transition to factories and mechanization 150 years ago.

Did we come out the other end with higher living standards? Yes, but that doesn't make the decades of brutal transition period any less awful for those affected.

- NFTs

- Surveillance schizos

- Global Pedophile Cabal schizos

- Anyone who didn’t believe we were a year out from Star Trek living when LLMs first started picking up steam

- People who predicted the flood of people entering Software via bootcamps, etc. would never cause any problems because their god of software is consuming the world too quickly for supply and demand to ever be a real concern.

- Anyone amongst the sea of delusional democrats who did indeed believe Trump could win a second term.

All of those doomers were vindicated, and that’s just recently.