The widest gap now is between tech and non-tech workers, says AI researcher
emax · x · 2026-11-02
AI commentator emax argues the biggest divide in lives today is between tech workers/researchers and everyone else — neither better nor worse, but both at once — hitting small-startup founders and people in CS, math, and cybersecurity hardest. 'I feel perpetual shellshock.'
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