No, it's not a battle between workers and technology. It is, as ever, a battle between workers and bosses. The technology is only a problem because the bosses own it.
Go forth, and preach this gospel!
Came here to say the same thing. Pointing towards the latest shiny thing as the reason for why workers are getting a shitty deal is an old trick, and we should all stop falling for it.
It even gets historicized according to that old trick. Luddite is now used to mean reactionary against new technology, but the original Luddites were just against how the bosses were using new machines to disenfranchise and impoverish them.
Those two hands should be raised together in unity, not fighting each other.
Automation of work is not the enemy, capitalism keeping us from enjoying the benefits of the automation is.
I'm old enough to remember computers being hyped as a way to cut all of our working hours down to a four or three day workweek. People were wondering what we were going to do with so much free time.
Now look at where we are - any advancement is used as a tool to squeeze as much labor out of everyone as possible.
Office workers have proven (with a 3 year track record) that they can be as productive with fulltime remote as with in office wor lk (with a huge improvement in work life balance), but managers and businesses are saying that everyone needs to RTO because of team building or better collaboration with zero data behind it.
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