AI feels like a real mania, a genuine collective break from reality among the ruling class. They might as well be pouring billions of dollars into an attempt to replace all jobs and knowledge with a large bronze idol of Dagon.
This is spot on. Millennials and Zoomers are far more liberal than pur boomer and gen X parents (who we saw suffer financially from layoffs and unstable wages). And that has primed us to be far more open and supportive of unions and workers rights.