>others just want to live life as a passenger, not think, and have AI do all the work.

Fuck, doesn't everyone? The future we were promised is one where machines did all the work leaving humans free to pursue a richer existence, whether that's creative pastimes or just laying on a beach.

Instead of democratizing the future, essentially every technological advance since the printing press has served only to increase the concentration of wealth and power at the top.

I can't imagine actually wanting to work if you didn't have to.