Jaron Lanier refutes the idea that the Singularity is inevitable. He states: "I do not think the technology is creating itself. It's not an autonomous process." He goes on to assert: "The reason to believe in human agency over technological determinism is that you can then have an economy where people earn their own way and invent their own lives. If you structure a society on "not" emphasizing individual human agency, it's the same thing operationally as denying people clout, dignity, and self-determination ... to embrace idea of the Singularity would be a celebration of bad data and bad politics."