I feel you. Thing is, I think there is a solution or at least part of one, on paper. We know what to do. Trouble is, we can't do it because of politics, politics that transcends the usual divisions. It's hard to have a tech utopia and deep income inequality without policy to make it that way. Policy creates markets, and markets create and distribute wealth. How that's done, whether evenly or unevenly, is determined by politics, policy, and the market structures they create.
Patents, copyrights, subsidies, ZIRP, foreign policy, etc., even without reporting to value judgments of "good" and "bad" and sticking safely with neutral terms, all these things involve trade-offs. They have consequences. They do tend to pick winners and losers.
The point is that the shape of society is a matter of choice not chance, technology, or divine providence.
Patents, copyrights, subsidies, ZIRP, foreign policy, etc., even without reporting to value judgments of "good" and "bad" and sticking safely with neutral terms, all these things involve trade-offs. They have consequences. They do tend to pick winners and losers.
The point is that the shape of society is a matter of choice not chance, technology, or divine providence.