In economic structures, which are necessarily also political structures because that’s how politics has always worked, you can have a great many low value people from whom you extract a great proportion of their wealth to keep things running. Greasing wheels and whatnot. Or you can have fewer skilled laborers from whom you take a smaller proportion of their wealth but a greater total sum due to the skill.

Changes like this feel like we are slipping more toward the peasant side, where we currently stand on the skilled labor side. I don’t want to become a peasant. It’s an objectively terrible life. I just don’t see how they can justify moving Americans in that direction.