Re:How much of the tech world is bullshit?
by bell-cot on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:42AM
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I'll take "tech world" to mean the modern computer software & web milieu, made possible after ~1992 by Moore's law effects and commonly-available internet access for households. Vs. municipal water supplies, steel plows, electrical power, antibiotics, weather satellites, and Lotus 1-2-3 for MS-DOS are technology, and changed the world, but...
Hmm... A really new area of economic activity (vs. farming, mining, transportation, ...), often supported by huge economic bubbles, frequent indifference to viable business models, a now-large workforce often commanding pay 3x or more what "normal economy" workers make and often expecting annual pay growth >10% higher than inflation, generally underwhelming contribution to human welfare (shinier things to click on every year is not a basic human need, nor does it seem to overall improve human society that much), ...
Hmm... A really new area of economic activity (vs. farming, mining, transportation, ...), often supported by huge economic bubbles, frequent indifference to viable business models, a now-large workforce often commanding pay 3x or more what "normal economy" workers make and often expecting annual pay growth >10% higher than inflation, generally underwhelming contribution to human welfare (shinier things to click on every year is not a basic human need, nor does it seem to overall improve human society that much), ...
I'll say 95%.