Technological progress that hurts more people than it helps isn't progress, it's class warfare.

We've never seen such a thing before, so I don't know how you can draw such sweeping conclusions about it.

The longer we ignore the collapse of the middle class, the angrier the bottom half of the economy will get and the more justified they will feel in enacting retribution. We absolutely have historical precedents for what happens here: The French Revolution, the Gilded Age, etc. People will only tolerate a declining standard of living for so long.