Some people resist AI because they don’t want scarcity and status hierarchies to disappear
wordgrammer · x · 2026-07-27
The post argues that some people don’t actually want AI to make the world better if that means removing scarcity, grind, and status hierarchies.
It frames resistance to AI as a desire to preserve situations where people can feel special by being above others in dangerous, underpaid, or scarce work.
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