With the caveat that I don't know if I actually believe the premise... Good. The tech sector is, without a doubt, incredibly important, and we need it to be s

With the caveat that I don't know if I actually believe the premise... Good. The tech sector is, without a doubt, incredibly important, and we need it to be strong and innovative if we're to continue to make real advances. But Silicon Valley has become too entrenched, too risk-averse as a whole, and far, far too much up its own ass to recognize what the world in general actually needs. Hardly a day goes by when I don't see someone working in the tech sector in California posting on here in ways that so clearly betray their staggering failure to understand how most people—including most people working in tech!—live, and by extension what they need, and what will improve their lives. The bubble is real, and it is pervasive. The world does not need companies with trillion-dollar valuations. It does not need more ways to get people to click on ads. It does not need more ways to make already-wealthy people even wealthier. What the world needs is a solidarity among tech workers (and others, of course) that recognizes that life, and human dignity and satisfaction, come first, and lets that recognition drive them to create software, hardware, and whatever else they can to improve those things. That's....not going to come out of Silicon Valley as it exists today, so if the shifts currently underway do take it down, I say so much the better.