Some do, but 36% of the eligible population did not vote in 2024. I don't think there's any evidence that "invisible" workers disproportionately vote.
I think the article makes a very questionable—and unnecessary—connection to electoral politics: "A sense of feeling invisible clearly animates working-class rage in many countries, and may have powered Donald Trump to victory in the US presidential election last fall." Note the weasel words "may have", as well as the vague, unsupported "clearly animates" claim, which I would dispute. Although Trump did try to appeal to the working class in several ways, I don't recall him ever discussing the issue of depersonalization, the subject of the article. What do immigration and tariffs, for example, have to do with depersonalization?
Steelmanning the argument, it may be that depersonalization amplifies the resentment that people face as they feel (or are) displaced through job replacement that occurs through immigration and globalization.
It may be. Or it may not be. At this point, it's pure unsubstantiated speculation.
In any case, that seems to contradict "and know what’s going down." It would be misplaced resentment to blame depersonalization on immigration, for example. It's possible that immigrants are depersonalized more than any other group. And ironically, Trump has aligned himself with a number of tech lords who are at the forefront of depersonalization.
Some do, but 36% of the eligible population did not vote in 2024. I don't think there's any evidence that "invisible" workers disproportionately vote.
I think the article makes a very questionable—and unnecessary—connection to electoral politics: "A sense of feeling invisible clearly animates working-class rage in many countries, and may have powered Donald Trump to victory in the US presidential election last fall." Note the weasel words "may have", as well as the vague, unsupported "clearly animates" claim, which I would dispute. Although Trump did try to appeal to the working class in several ways, I don't recall him ever discussing the issue of depersonalization, the subject of the article. What do immigration and tariffs, for example, have to do with depersonalization?