Yes! Even without vigilantism, when society places a great deal of trust in you you are supposed to live with a certain level of fear that if you abuse that trust society will impose upon you life-destroying consequences.
It feels like it should be terrifying for Silicon Valley too, another group of very rich and powerful people who tell themselves that everything they do is for the benefit of society while actually most people make their bread and butter on technology whose benefits to society are quickly consumed by anti-competition and that familiar attitude of overwhelming negligence towards human harm where it is caused.
SV may be different though in that most cases you are opting in and most people agree that the products improve their life. If you feel otherwise don’t buy it. Someone can still decide that technology is bad and go on a bombing campaign like the unabomber, but we haven’t seen much support for that approach, instead questioning his sanity. I think the YT shooter fell on the crazy side of the scale in public opinion as well.
With health insurance, you are forced to buy it or have little choice on which company you go with when it’s provided through your employer.
I guess if you’re forced out of a job because of AI or something that’s fair. I always thought the best argument for UBI was if you take all of our jobs and give us nothing in return, we can make your life a living hell.
Yes! Even without vigilantism, when society places a great deal of trust in you you are supposed to live with a certain level of fear that if you abuse that trust society will impose upon you life-destroying consequences.
It feels like it should be terrifying for Silicon Valley too, another group of very rich and powerful people who tell themselves that everything they do is for the benefit of society while actually most people make their bread and butter on technology whose benefits to society are quickly consumed by anti-competition and that familiar attitude of overwhelming negligence towards human harm where it is caused.