I look to the past.<p>Back in the 70s, many of my relatives were farmers. Landlords came in with their tractors, had tremendous output with little labor. Rice prices dropped. Farmers could no longer make enough for a living so they sold their land. The landlords bought all the land, then they hired the farmers. As productivity increased, they fired the farmers. Many farmers ended up too poor to have children and their dynasty died out, forgotten. The rest survived by clearing land for plantations, which led to a caste of people who favor lifelong jobs, and tell their kids to work in factories or gov.<p>Many blame a specific ethnic group or the rich, but I blame tech. My grandfather was a rice tycoon. He had the tech. Tech made him rich. My father went to Harvard, did a MBA. He regretted not doing tech because the power was in the hands of the engineers. Back in the day, rich people gave money to the ones who could build and fix the tractors. Yesterday, it was cloud and apps. Tomorrow, it will be AI.<p>Some people think they can boycott, ignore, cancel tech. If they roll their eyes hard enough, it goes away. That's a kind of privilege, isn't it? Where you can tell them to stop, and then they stop. But I think those who have lived through industrialization are less optimistic.