The same children that those pushing for "science and technology" were sending to work in mines during last spectacular technological developments that promised to reduce need for hard-breaking labor?

> dogmatic thought.

Dogmatism sometimes seems like a better thing compared to mind so open that wind blows through it without obstacles.

Lot of effort was spent to naturalize the current state of affairs and value system, even if there is nothing natural and obvious about it. Humans for millennia have lived with much higher political and social flexibility, with hierarchies built and teared down even seasonally, or with role of property and wealth shifting back and forth.

Of course the structure exists because we allow it, that's the easy part. Hard part is - why do we allow it?

> Interesting to see more of this thinking on Hacker News

I am on this site because it is one of the less shitty places on the Internet (in terms of usability, privacy etc.) to have some form of discussion, but I never identified as a "hacker", "techie", "entrepreneur" or "temporarily embarrassed billionaire". AI didn't change my view on anything, except it has shown me how blind and naive people can be.

Of course I tend to focus on aspects that are being discussed here (context of software engineering).

You confuse good writing with following rigid set of rules that describe something akin to mechanistic process of manufacturing. No wonder that machines fit perfectly into this shape.

Good writing is not created by Oxford commas or em-dashes. It comes from taste.