Are tech workers the next Midwest factory workers? AI displacement debate
Boomfrag · reddit · 2026-10-21
A resonant Reddit question: with AI hitting the tech industry, are tech workers the next Midwest factory workers? The poster notes how little society did for displaced manufacturing workers and their communities, and wonders whether tech workers will fare better — or worse — and what that treatment would say about who we are as a society.
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