the difficult of technology's distinguishing between "building stuff to make the world better" and "chasing nickels". I don't think it's super complicated. It

the difficult of technology's distinguishing between "building stuff to make the world better" and "chasing nickels". I don't think it's super complicated. It just became complicated as people that were decidedly not making the world better wanted the cachet of doing so. To me: unintentional positive externalities are still unintentional. Rationalizing profiting as a societal good basically makes someone the devil.