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I think they’re embittered bc of having lib arts livelihoods shredded by technology and being told it’s a good thing and progress by engineers reinventing the wheel and causing more negative externalities on top of that, and then the cycle begins again. STEM keeps winning, everyone else loses, and STEM gets congratulated, empowered and funded for it.

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It's true that they got disrupted, but tech also led to more democratization of the news / arts, which obviously entrenched players are not too fond of.

Also, the same embittered liberal arts majors had no problem telling rust belt coal miners that it was a good thing their livelihoods were being shredded.

If you fail to see that there's a massive culture war element to this, I have nothing more to say.

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