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Genning is still power hungry and expensive, but it has its applications. The problem is that industrialists want to do with it what they've wanted to do with every previous step of automation, which is, replace workers with it.
And the problem is, the way people justify their existence to the societies we have is through employment or profits. If you don't have those, you go homeless and now according to SCOTUS, you are an unperson.
And so now it is conspicuous any time an employer lays someone off or removes them from a job, even to maximize profits. That is a life-threatening action, and it raises questions of whether institutions exist for humankind, or vice versa. If it's vice versa than Viva la revolución! Party like it's 1789! The ownership class will tremble!
But for now we seem happy to let billionaires put all their resources into making their number go up and stopping us from resisting this impulse by force. Including robot dogs with guns.
Admiral Stabby is fine, but I have no issues hitting a robot dog with a gun with an improvised EMP, a Molotov cocktail, or hell just a sledgehammer.
Nor should you!
When La Résistance started organizing in occupied Paris, it was because the German garrison picked that fight. The Germans couldn't help themselves (despite orders to police gently) but be brutal and abusive against the French, and individuals in the public felt compelled to misbehave in small acts of resistance (slashing tires, defacing propaganda posters, cutting phone lines). Things escalated from there.