Some people think technological acceleration will bail out the current political order. We’ll grow our way out! Or so the logic goes.

But did streaming bail out Blockbuster? Did smartphones bail out Nokia? Or did the Industrial Revolution bail out the monarchy?

The growth did come.
But so did the disruption.

It all depends on what is being optimised for. In the West, it seems to be more control of the population and rent extraction -- tech breakthrus will be exploited but not lead to reinvigoration of society, more likely the opposite.