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"The rich do not live like this. The rich have grown afraid of screens. They want their children to play with blocks, and tech-free private schools are booming.

"The rich do not live like this. The rich have grown afraid of screens. They want their children to play with blocks, and tech-free private schools are booming." In my experience, the rich are misguided. They do indeed believe the above. Every rich person I know is raising their child to be anti-tech, and they cite a lot of the same things as this article (unsurprisingly written in the NYT). This is a mistake though. They are venting their own frustration with the lack of power the internet and computers have brought to their world on their children. Technology has removed gatekeepers, destroyed old media, turned politics on its head, devalued classically valuable roles... By turning their children against tech the rich are drinking their own kool-aid if you will. Make no mistake. The future will be designed, commanded and operated from and through screens. Technology is power and the best thing you can do for your child is have them embrace tech head on.

mntmoss 8y ago
This is the take I was looking for. There are a few things about human interaction that need to be supplemented with time offscreen, but I'm imagining the rich children of tomorrow getting on social media for the first time and immediately self-destructing in spectacular fashion, because they haven't learned any etiquette or rules of engagement. They'll try to get their careers started by finding traditional gatekeepers and hierarchies to bypass, but most of them will have been absorbed into networks. Their education will have a lot of book knowledge and not a lot of hands-on with any technical issues or real teams(increasingly likely to operate in remote fashion). They'll know other rich kids, but they are likely to be climbing over each other to keep up the status quo of a crumbling system. A good portion will spend their twenties reconstructing their entire world view. Wealth and power will still certainly be a thing, but in such a dynamic, connected environment, a simple hereditary transfer of power is likely to become harder in many venues.

mntmoss 8y ago

This is the take I was looking for. There are a few things about human interaction that need to be supplemented with time offscreen, but I'm imagining the rich children of tomorrow getting on social media for the first time and immediately self-destructing in spectacular fashion, because they haven't learned any etiquette or rules of engagement. They'll try to get their careers started by finding traditional gatekeepers and hierarchies to bypass, but most of them will have been absorbed into networks. Their education will have a lot of book knowledge and not a lot of hands-on with any technical issues or real teams(increasingly likely to operate in remote fashion). They'll know other rich kids, but they are likely to be climbing over each other to keep up the status quo of a crumbling system. A good portion will spend their twenties reconstructing their entire world view. Wealth and power will still certainly be a thing, but in such a dynamic, connected environment, a simple hereditary transfer of power is likely to become harder in many venues.