And I'm frequently amazed how tone deaf tech people are and how disconnected from the general population. ;)

OK got it.

Its perfectly fine to automate away everyone else's job...except their own and their immediate family's. Then we're supposed to be anti-tech and this site becomes a political one.

That is unless you bring up wars or fascism or genocide. Because politics is off limits.

this is a forum for a venture capital firm, everything here is political no matter how the average poster like to pretend it isn't and complaining won't override the financial incentives involved

Different people come here for different things, I guess. I'd bet that most people like the actual "hacker" part: tinkering with fun projects, examples of great creativity, obscure mathematical puzzles, etc.

Greedy sociopaths from SV who don't care about impact on anything on the society around them must be small minority, I don't believe there is that many of them in the world, otherwise it would collapse already.