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At this point, I feel like even calling it "tech" is an insult to the idea of technology.
I made this rant before, but where's the actual innovation? Google has no excuse advertising Chrome, something almost everyone under the age of 45 uses. To make matters worse, I begrudgingly admit that Alphabet has done some legitimately cool shit, like look at The Moonshot Factory for example.
I don't need 50 million apps just to take a shit in app-approved toilets in the city, the novelty wore off long ago. Want to innovate? Clean up the ocean, or help usher in high speed rail that would give Japan and Italy a run for their money. Make biotech that can eat up microplastics.
I know they are capable of better, and that's what makes this so frustrating.
Innovating incredible new rent-seeking techniques
Take thing that already exists, privatize it if it's a public service, then add more surveillance and maybe a subscription service. Innovation!
What if taxis but indentured servitude?