And so we seek the evidence of minor maladjustment—heavy breathing, strange mustaches, leering conduct onstage at the Oscars—to predict a deeper disconnection.

Even Keynes in 1930 assured his readers that technological unemployment would be only a “temporary phase of maladjustment.”

Nor was it just maladjustment or alienation or assimilation problems, which probably shouldn’t be condemned as evil.