Let them eat cake

Brian Elliot: There’s a fork in the road right now, and Big Tech is waving everyone down the wrong path. The story they’ve been selling is simple: AI makes you productive by letting you cut people. Fewer humans, same output, fatter margins. … We hollowed out the middle of this country once and told ourselves the market would sort it out. It didn’t—many of us were wrong. We can’t afford to do it to…