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But as westerners are incapable of imagining a world without wage slavery or even the basic affordances of a welfare system, they'll continue to see improvements in quality of life and automation as an enemy, and making up "leftist" sounding nonsense to justify reactionary views.

For example, you can try to construct a woke argument about how the death of uber (a horrible system that involves a risk of injury for both a passenger and a driver working for little pay) as the death of community or something because self-driving cars don't force you to sit with someone anymore.

You don't need any of that. Under capitalism automation primarily serves to concentrate wealth in the hands of the capitalist class, at the direct expense of the labourers whose work allowed these companies to automate in the first place.

Zoomers have no idea how techphobic conservatives were prior to Zuck melting them algorithmically plus aging. Conservatives even had a period post Regan where they tried to earthwash their image with a bunch of Native American Ranger type shit (Norrisslop etc)

people will be like "I oppose this because it will reduce class distinctions between me and less credentialed persons" and think they're being very leftist