Tech then: “Ethical wealth creation is possible, and it shall fuel abundance for the world!”

Tech now: The guy who popularized the above phrase — his company was investigated by the FBI for selling startup IP to China. (Will probably be dropped because of new president—we will never know the truth). A payroll software company has such little faith in its own abilities it sends a mole into a rival company. A child porn purveyor is held up as a genius and an industry darling innovating for the creator economy. There’s a whole new genre of company that masquerades as health but is actually just a drug dealers and pill mills.   Mass joblessness — not mass abundance — is seen as an explicit goal for many companies in the AI age. 

And if you try to EVER critique any of it you’re a LIAR. Fake News! Stop reading the New York Times says Chamath and Brian Armstrong, they LIE about our industry!

A red pill to many of us (largely millennials) who were sold "make the world a better place" or "don't be evil", is that IT is just another incarnation of dominant industry

There is nothing inherently more noble about a Google or a Meta than a Standard Oil

The nobility is temporal, and must be found again in fledgling industry

extremely blessed highly favored always grateful

It always reduces down to social consensus

But hopefully we can create more egalitarian rulesets run by neutral systems on top

I’m here to write bangers and make you rich

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Building valuable things that people pay for is inherently a social good

Increasing GDP makes all of us more prosperous

Maximize that shareholder value baby

People leave and die and change, the world pivots around it and it evolves. Just as man can not step in the same river, nor can the soul of a corporation remain unchanged by time.

i spent like 3 months with a strong willingness to work on a b corp because i wanted the world to be a better place but then something happened that that tension was released and i realized that it was not about that

This is why the older gens here are often focused on “can’t be evil”.

Absolutely agree. The ethos of tech giants shifts with societal norms and competition. The true innovation and potential for positive change often resides in startups and decentralized technologies like blockchain.

Must be found in post-capitalist economic structures not another capitalist profit bubble