Sorry dude I'm not really tracking with you at all. The OP posited some plain issues that can be dissected and dismissed but was muted by a mod that works for

Sorry dude I'm not really tracking with you at all. The OP posited some plain issues that can be dissected and dismissed but was muted by a mod that works for an organization that benefits from just burying said issues. I lean conservative and can't really see how anyone in tech says with a straight face the "gig economy" is good for anybody except the 10^5 or so technical staff and their management and financiers. A modest understanding of history (i.e. what technology meant in the 60s and 70s) just leaves me bewildered with what constitutes tech now, and the flow of money from monetary policy down to banks and VCs is they main cause of overall stalling out of fundamental, worthwhile, and simply interesting progress. The cashout culture of things like WeWork is a totally different dimension of the bizarre and unsavory. VCs should be tired enabling and propping this farce up. A desire for intellectualism comes from allowing airtime for ideas that you disagree with, that might even confront yourself, and maybe even elucidating and moving the tonal argument you disagree with to the very roots of the things that need to be discussed and providing ample discourse for the thoughts to be explored. Whether you are doing this or not I can't really tell right now, but you are not the target of my comments, the mod mute is. I'm happy to just go away at this point, this site and surrounding culture has changed for the worse in the 12 years I've seen.