One thing that I wish more people realized is that if this tech wave does push our societies into this degree of violence - and I believe that this is a distinct possibility - it won't be Altman's mansion that'll burn first. It'll be the houses of software engineers and other "high middle class" occupations in rich suburbs - simply because they are much closer, and don't have much security, so more accessible. Altman will have the time to get to his private jet off to New Zealand or wherever the current bunker is; the rest of us will suffer the immediate consequences. See also: 1917 Russian Revolution.

So, regardless of one's ethics and political philosophy, we have a very strong collective interest as an economic class to prevent this scenario. Most of us don't have any more direct political power than your average voter, but we can throw more money at the politicians. In my experience, this doesn't help one bit with "wedge issues", but this all is so new that nobody has managed to weaponize it across political lines just yet.