Because many only look at first order consequences and ignore anything beyond that. Despite history having a huge number of societally enhancing innovations to reference that also took jobs at the time.
I'm not buy this shit anymore.
Most technological advances are economic enhancing innovations, society be damned!
The technology being developed today is consolidating wealth at the top. No one is getting from the gig economy.
Stock holders on the other hand? Doing amazing!
The top level Tax Rate has declined from 91% tax rate to 37% tax rate from 1950s through 2020s, and you blame technology for the failure of our society to redistribute wealth?
Despite those agricultural workers who lost their jobs.
Innovation in aggregate benefits most people in the long run via lessening real costs of goods. Producing goods in an inefficient manner raises the real cost of living for society.
Was life better when the average person spent 80% of their income on food?
Will life be worse for the average person when goods and services become 50% cheaper through AI driven automation?
Forcing people into second order thinking is forcing submission.
Making some fantasy up about improving the lives of foreigners (and tech companies cash flow) at the expense of your neighbour is peak humanism.