> Did the rise of fire, the wheel, the printing press, manufacturing, and microprocessors also give rise to futures without economic rights?

The rise of steam engines did. And the printing press and electrical engines did the opposite.

It's not hard to understand the difference, it's about the minimum size of an economically useful application. If it's large, it creates elites, if it's small, it democratizes the society.

LLMs by their nature have enormous minimal sizes, and the promise to increase by orders of magnitude.