It's not the fault of computers, but they changed the fabric. It was a select few of our fellow humans, who also did deregulation, financialization, and globalization. They all started at the same time and have concentrated wealth and power the last 4-5 decades.
Computers are still a significant factor because most new tasks created were cognitive and needed university education. Or another way, the automation that computers brought eliminated jobs in labor, but we did not create new jobs for those people. The three others were instrumental in that side of the equation.
Well, we did create new jobs for them technically. It’s just that the jobs are terrible. Those disrupted in the past 20 years have been given gig-economy BS to replace their jobs.
The jobs created for the factory workers and the former professional retail workers, in the 90s, were in big-box stores.
