You are actually correct, I believe. But this is exactly the principle of capitalism isn't it? Market forces, invisible hand, the theories changed over the years but it boils down to the same thing: letting everybody compete. But you cannot have your cake (only locals employed) and eat it too (big wages) in this free competition - some will be underbidding the others.

Simpler and efficient for who? I imagine some random guy vibe coding "hi chatgpt I want to scrape this and this website", getting something running, then going to LinkedIn to brag about AI. Yes I have no hard evidence for this, but I see things on LinkedIn.

That's not the problem being discussed here, though. That's normal usage, and you can hardly blame AI companies for shitty scrapers random users create on demand, because it's merely a symptom of coding getting cheap. Or, more broadly, the flip side of the computer becoming an actual "bicycle for the mind" and empowering end-users for a change.

I can imagine in the app/phone settings "allow nudes only from contacts" or a whitelist something? I get on Tumblr all the time unsolicited shit, not necessarily bad looking but no thanks I can take care of myself.

I can't imagine my working life without a touchscreen. Drag to scroll, touch to focus, pinch to zoom, just the usual stuff. I also use business style light laptops, so touch is always there and more usable/precise than the touchpad. People always get confused when they ask me for help on their machines and I reach to the screen for... nothing, usually.

> People always get confused when they ask me for help on their machines and I reach to the screen

Nooooo, please don't touch my screen! I can't stand fingerprints on my laptop display! Pretty much every gesture you mentioned has a touch pad equivalent that works just as well or better for a desktop OS.

You must get a nice arm workout moving your hands from the keyboard to the screen and back all the time. Sounds super slow though.

You're probably joking but I actually enjoyed switching between using the mouse and the touch screen, it's a cute little distraction.

> Drag to scroll, touch to focus, pinch to zoom, just the usual stuff

I feel like trackpads do most of the above better than a touchscreen? Mac trackpads, at any rate (I do recall a lot of PC trackpads and/or drivers being hot garbage)

I was never able to get it working on my Thinkpad. Might be me of course, but after days of reinstalls resulting in always transparent windows, I went with Mint. And stayed.

Move fast and break things? Or, innovation at all costs? Or, business value here and now? Or... (add more marketing buzzwords)

But is what you have now "right" wing? Or just oligarchy of no real wing? I'm not sure that ideology has a real role in what they actually do (looking beyond words), unless "I do what I please" is an ideology...

Now that you're mentioning, I'm surprised that, even though in some corners anti-immigrant parties rose to governing, they are only doing legislation and stricter enforcing immigration and border protection rules - not appreciated by everybody of course but somehow understandable where they're coming from. Might be somebody else knows more, or has seen more, but my one data point is: no nothing like that was ever hinted from what I can tell. And I'm appalled.