I wasn't the only one back then. There were a number that called it, but a lot of "this is actually revolutionary(tm) and opposing it is anti-materialism and the jobs lost aren't real jobs anyway and the treat printers are effectively workers that are at least as valid as human beings and least as conscious and intelligent as you are and are getting smarter than that so you're also anti-worker if you have a problem with being pushed into further precarity, you meat computer" computer touchery too.
I wasn't the only one back then. There were a number that called it, but a lot of "this is actually revolutionary(tm) and opposing it is anti-materialism and the jobs lost aren't real jobs anyway and the treat printers are effectively workers that are at least as valid as human beings and least as conscious and intelligent as you are and are getting smarter than that so you're also anti-worker if you have a problem with being pushed into further precarity, you meat computer" computer touchery too.