I'm swinging back and forth between thinking that this article is vapid garbage and makes some valid points. Probably both. I have a similar canned lecture tha

I'm swinging back and forth between thinking that this article is vapid garbage and makes some valid points. Probably both. I have a similar canned lecture that I give to non-tech friends regarding tech's promises to the future of employment (which eventually rolls around to the need for guaranteed income). The example I've always cited is Instagram. Photography used to mean Kodak, which once a billion dollar company employing an entire city. It got displaced by Instagram, a billion dollar company that employed 12. (yes, I know, the cameras came from Apple who bought parts from Sony, this is just a vague rant) So this article is kind of dumb in that it's not a brand new phenomenon that started in the past week, Pokemon Go is not really a great example, and money flowing out of towns into big city pockets has been old hat since Gone With the Wind was a blockbuster… but the point he's getting at is an important one.