They Must Destroy the Computer

Because it is destroying them.

Put yourself in their shoes. The Computer is taking their jobs away from them - and doing this faster all the time. And not only that - it is redefining who they are. What society expects of them, and what it rewards (or punishes) them for doing.

This is part of Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. The Computer is grabbing all the goodies. And it knows exactly where they are.

I will put this into a historical context. And compare it to the Industrial Revolution. That was obsessed with Manufacturing and Transportation.

I grew up in an Industrial city - Ft. Madison, Iowa. That had the Santa Fe Railroad on the West End of town - and the Sheaffer Pen Company on the East End of town.

The air was filthy (from all those Steam Engines)  - but it had plenty of jobs. Now, fifty years later, it is part of the Midwestern Rust Bowl, and has no jobs at all. America did nothing to protect those jobs - it didn't even try. And now they are gone, forever.

The same thing, is now happening with the Computer. It is creating some new jobs - but it is eliminating many more. And America, isn't even trying to save them.