Money Hungry Mob of Extortionists, Grifters and Rent-Seekers
So the other day on Mastodon I posted a link to this amazingly depressing video in which the author laments the fact that he lost one of his freelance writing gigs to AI powered tech. I also said that “the tech industry has devolved into a money hungry mob of extortionists, grifters and rent-seekers” and promised a subsequent blog post on the topic. This is that post.
So let’s start this post off on the right foot by making some declarations most of you will likely regard as a sign of premature-dementia on my part, shall we?
When I try to think of so-called innovations and advancements since the iPhone, which to be clear is a portable machine that can handle a wide variety of computing tasks, has all day battery life, always on connectivity and is very accessible by virtue of its touch user interface, I can’t think of any. Oh sure there are lots of things that we’ve created and touted as innovations since then (namely the cloud, crypto, NFTs and AI) but all of that is basically short-sighted bullshit.
If you are an end user, almost none of that shit has changed your life for the better. Sure the cloud has enabled us seamless and easy access to data we want backed up like photos and that’s nice, but it’s not as if we couldn’t do that before the “cloud” became what it is today, and to be clear: it’s gone far beyond that. Everything else on the list is basically an outright scam.
