It pays far too much and fat wads of cash are in everyone's mind as these debates surface. "Better for everyone", "human equality", "UBI", yada yada. Debaters then like to name-drop "No true scotsman" and "purity spiralling" for either side. It's just that tech marketing claims it's a small group of technical wizards, while in reality it's the largest novel corporate interest of the last fifty years and it hasn't been about the little guy for decades. The industry is practically vampiric on naive hopefuls. Well, at least some of them get paid.