The One Emotion You’re Not Allowed to Feel About AI (And Why That’s the Point)
Tech workers are caught in a painful paradox: AI lets them work 5x faster while filling them with existential dread. The advice to ‘stay curious’ isn’t neutral — it’s a mechanism to pacify anger and preserve the status quo. This article argues that righteous anger is the rational response to a system that extracts value from your fear, and that the only real path to agency is recognizing this as a power problem, not a technology one.