Very much related to the culture around the various framework hype machines, the “changing the world” startup (corporate) trope, and more distantly, FOSS mythology.

There’s something very central about the trope of technology-as-toy-cupboard. It’s been a huge influence on the Internet and on Internet startups, not just in terms of how offices are accessorised and cultures are defined, but in the kinds of stories developers and business owners tell themselves about what they do and why they do it.

You get some very curious blends when it cross-feetilises with mainstream corporate capitalist class values.