> Guess what - a college education is worth a great deal more to society and the individual that gets it than a TV of any size will ever be worth IMHO.
Indeed, but capitalism does not care about society, but rather is there to make the person selling you the TV even richer.
Tech is reaching a stage where the garbage/useful ratio is > 1. This is actually what I use to like about Musk when he pretended to run his companies and smoked cigars at the Playboy mansion. He actually tried to get truly innovative and useful technology worked on. Not anymore.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-warns-colleg...