Critic Slams 'Asshole Elitism' in AI Automation Debates Over Blue-Collar Work
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-22
Rex Douglass argues there's an elitism at the heart of AI automation discourse: math and technical work is treated as purer than other fields' labor. In a follow-up, he claims everyone draws their own blue-collar/white-collar line — people want automation to cut their input costs regardless of how, then need self-justifying stories to protect the value of their own outputs, with generalized ideology papered over later.
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