I get this.

However, I was living in the UK when the miners lost their livelihoods. Entire communities left to fend for themselves on diminishing benefits with no support.

I see some hypocrisy in our (knowledge worker) industry. The same sort of folks who were supporting Thatcherism and cheerfully calling themselves Yuppies, completely rejecting any attempt to unionise or join any collective bargaining efforts, are the same sort of folks (though not necessarily the same individuals) who are now complaining that they'll be left without a livelihood by AI.

Best time to unionise was 30 years ago. Second best time is now. But this is still somewhat of a radical position for a HN reader to hold.

Is there hypocrisy in this? Sure. Does it matter? No. According to the CEOs, if you were to believe them, a lot of people won’t work in the near future. If white collar jobs don’t exist anymore, what happens to the blue collar ones? And that is the uncertainty people are grappling with that is fueling the resentment.