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

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