> and now we're handing the power to replace human work over to those who can afford to pay for it.
All technological advances through the ages have been doing this in one way or another. For some things people paid with their health or effort and for others people pay with money when that was available. I disagree with the "now". This is no different from a car. You seemed to say that in the middle of your comment but then reverted back.
Fair; I think my poorly-articulated concern is that there seems to be a healthy pace of technological change at which our productivity increases but people have time to adapt and modernize their income streams. If technology replaces human work too quickly, people don't have time to adapt, and the middle class disappears. I don't even see a solution at this point, but keeping the technology free would at least not make the problem worse.
All technological advances through the ages have been doing this in one way or another. For some things people paid with their health or effort and for others people pay with money when that was available. I disagree with the "now". This is no different from a car. You seemed to say that in the middle of your comment but then reverted back.