Sounds like you have an issue with our current governance structures which allows too much value capture to proceed to the ultra wealthy untaxed, despite them relying on the society supported by said taxes to generate their massive wealth.

This will be true whether you’re for/against AGI development. You’re not solving the underlying problem, you’re just kicking the bucket down the road for others to deal with.

AI technology is dramatically accelerating these trends and enabling new ways and is itself a problem.

There is a common trope of claiming technology isn't a problem that simply isn't true. Cheap and available technology absolutely changes models. In the 1960s the Stasi could pay a bunch of people to monitor cameras and microphones but it was incredibly expensive. Cheap cameras, cheap hard drives to store footage indefinitely, and cheap image/voice recognition all enable new horrifying forms of control, surveillance, and punishment even if the actual capability to watch people is not new.

I literally have no idea what we disagree on?

We're saying the exact same thing.

I'm just saying that cameras were always going to become cheap. So were hard drives, and image/voice recognition. This was always going to happen, and always will happen, because it is a net good thing overall. However, it also exposes new means of exploitation that were did not exist before. AKA, technology solves two problems, and creates a brand new one.

It is futile (and dare I say useless) to cry fowl that technological innovation is happening. Instead, we should be revisiting our existing governance structures and remodel them according to the new reality we live in.

You're arguing against things I didn't say at all. You should re-read my initial comment and try to not project <groupsay> onto it.