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user-inactivated · 2761 days ago · link · · parent · post: Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit - David Graeber
On the other hand, I saw the best minds of my generation pour their talents into finding eyeballs for ads and and writing bots to trade castles in the air with each other...I think the argument is not that technology is at a standstill because it doesn't pay off, the argument is technology serves whoever is willing to pay for it and lately, that technology has been serving more boring masters than it did at the height of the Cold War.
I'm okay with that.