You’re mad at robots? Seriously? You think Siri and ChatGPT are the reason you got laid off? That’s cute. Convenient, even. But let’s not be foolish. It wasn’t the algorithm that cut your healthcare. It was a man in a boardroom who wanted to buy a fourth yacht….

AI is just the new scapegoat. Like immigrants before it. Like women, Black people, queer folks, disabled folks before it. Every time power needs an excuse to hoard more, it blames the “other.” And now the “other” is artificial. It’s poetic, almost.

But let’s dissect this. Technology isn’t inherently evil. It reflects the ethics of the people who control it. AI didn’t choose to be deployed in ways that gut journalism, surveil marginalized communities, or automate poverty. Humans did that. Specifically, rich humans with no accountability and a god complex.

The tech is neutral. The application is not.

And to be honest: people have been losing jobs to automation since the cotton gin.

The only difference is now we’re romanticizing manual labor after decades of dehumanizing it.

Suddenly everyone wants to “go back to basics,” but no one wants to talk about how basics were never equitable to begin with.

The problem isn’t that AI exists. The problem is that our economic system treats people like disposable parts. Your boss didn’t replace you with a machine because it was better.

That’s not innovation. That’s exploitation wrapped in a TED Talk.

If you want to fight the system, don’t waste your energy yelling at machines. Start questioning who builds them. Who benefits. Who decides how they’re used. Because until we address that, the cycle will keep spinning. New tech, same story.

So no, AI didn’t take your job. Capitalism did. And unless we rewrite the rules of that game, we’re all just one upgrade away from irrelevance