No. By this logic, if they wanted to stay with the times they should have sought capital investment for their own industrial forges, joined their local lodges, climbed the ranks, lobbied their governments for loose safety regulations, and plied their workers with propaganda about how "we're in a recession and have to tighten our belts".

Think of the wonderful world we could have if everyone just got their shit together and became paper trillionaire technocrats.

The software world pretty much demanded this outcome.

Go back 10 years and post "SWE's should form labor unions"

Then watch as your post drops to [dead] and people scream "How dare you rob me of theoretical millions of dollars I'll be making".

I wonder how many of these same downvoters are now worried about getting replaced with AI.