Fuck AI

It is absolutely possible to 'shit on workers if they're needed', you do it by reducing their education, and their ability to think critically, until you canmore easily manipulate them into voting and acting against their own interests. For an informative example, look to the USA over the last few decades, and how that's turned out.

From the manipulators point of view, the best part of it is that as people get less and less used to actually critically assessing what they're told, they start to resent those who do, and that turns to anti-intelectualism and rejecting the science they're told to reject, thys reinforcing their own subjegation.