The local consensus converges on the median person being screwed

Claim

A New York Times opinion piece reported that across political leanings, from engineers to investors to founders, the San Francisco consensus on AI's effect on the workforce has converged on the median person being screwed, while a slim majority of Swiss voters backed capping the human population at ten million and Spotify began badging living artists.

Reporting date: 2026-05-01 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to May 1, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)