Reality is not unzipping in that the speed of light is different. A lot of inner monologues, sense of belonging, hope for the future, as something like covid makes the masses see a minority who do none of the “real work” as dependents who somehow have far more comfortable lives.
Tech oligarchs who were all “Disrupt!” are now all “Wait not me! I’m a rent seeker now!”
It’s a predictable circle of life given the common and fundamentally unchanged from any past iteration over the last thousands of years, human condition.
> Tech oligarchs who were all “Disrupt!” are now all “Wait not me! I’m a rent seeker now!”
It's always been an empty platitude from the SV disillusional masses: when the business model is 'grow at all costs, even if you lose money' in order to cash out on an over-inflated IPO, it was clear that it was never to disrupt anything. It was t:o build something seemingly novel, raise funds to fight a war of attrition, moat, weaken the opposition and take majority market-share and then cash out.
Plan B is selling out to some megacorp/tech oligarch in order to rinse and repeat as a 'serial entrepreneur' until you eventually get to a position in which you get on a board and you can ossify something like Twitter, too!
Tech oligarchs who were all “Disrupt!” are now all “Wait not me! I’m a rent seeker now!”
It’s a predictable circle of life given the common and fundamentally unchanged from any past iteration over the last thousands of years, human condition.