I think it’s possible to make a case both of you are right.

These are huge globe changing effects being batted around. Solar is going to have an enormous effect - it’s distributed at minimum. A lot of human domestic activity (billions of people) can go off grid. That’s going to chnage politics in ways that’s hard to understand

Elite production (a term I always have concerns about - I prefer to say that the average school leaving age has moved from 16 when I was young to 21.)

But elites, social media, balkanisation of social groupings (death of mass media) these also have huge effects.

But the good news is this page on HN probably lists all of the giant freaking tidal waves - it’s not an infinite challenge. But it is going to need radically different approaches to fix it.

Luckily we have Democracy and Science - tattoo them on your knuckles folks - we got a fight ahead of us :-)