"The labor is valuable" is basically the refrain of every single laborer in every industrial revolution.

The point isn't that labor isn't "valuable" it's that "value" here is a moral position. This same thesis could have been said about basically any mechanized industry.

There is no putting the genie back in the bottle. You can't un-invent the nuclear bomb, or the printing press, or the steam engine. We need to find a politically stabilizing way forward, and that means we need political coalitions that don't consume themselves with infighting.

Right now we can't even work together to build housing for young people... how the hell are we going to get through this mess without actually trying to build something bigger by making sacrifices.