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Regardless of how representative Victor Davis Hanson's experiences may be, it is true that compassion from a distance is a very characteristic phenomenon of our time.
The real problem raised in this article is not even empathy, but simply: what do you do when you increase productivity so much that millions of your potential customers become unemployed? Just cater to the minority of affluent people who control the levers of technology?