It's hyperbole, sure, but there is a kernel of truth (as is often the case) It seems entirely plausible from where I sit that some of the technology companies

It's hyperbole, sure, but there is a kernel of truth (as is often the case) It seems entirely plausible from where I sit that some of the technology companies with the highest average talent (for some hand-wavy) in engineering are spending a ton of that talent , and wealth, and time focusing on problems that don't have very compelling value in a broader societal sense. While at the same time some interesting and clearly important problems are severely under-resourced. I suppose that's part of free-ish market capitalism's feature set - if above is right it should eventually re-balance but nothing says that has to happen in one generation, or even several.