I'm not so sure if that assessment is true, but regardless of that, it also doesn't matter.
Decisions in tooling are not made by the 99% of the population, but a subset that is likely a lot more tuned-in to all this. After all, that is kinda their job so that they can make good decisions
Agree, but I don't think the 1% that make the decisions share our viewpoint. They like Musk, Altman, et al
Counterpoint: if that was the case, Musk and Thiel wouldn't as successful as they are.
Our modern capitalist societies are, at the very least, amoral.
But isn't that assessment mostly just looking at the 2010s and extrapolating from that?
And back then, the world was very different. ZIRP, cryptocurrencies, infinite highs, peak social media. All that stuff