They have no idea what they have just done. Good and necessary disruption will ensue, in some cases, but the reordering of the economy for the Information Age is going to be just as disruptive as the Industrial Revolution. We have postponed the effects for a couple of decades, with a lot of help from collectivists in government. But now the dam has burst - and we are going to learn that Americas Unemployable Rate is now north of 50%.
I agree. But there is nothing more dystopian than 160 million people with nothing productive to do. Recipe for perdition.