Eh, the critique that Silicon Valley basically was only solving the problems of a shut-in white male programmer was hilariously accurate for a solid 5 years bef

Eh, the critique that Silicon Valley basically was only solving the problems of a shut-in white male programmer was hilariously accurate for a solid 5 years before COVID hit. As long as there's a lot of money in rearranging the deck chairs of what is the "cool" social media site every 10 years, there's going to be a ton of "investment" in chasing that next big thing cycle. It's just fashion at this point. I eyeroll at Web3 and crypto and all of that. But somewhere in that flotsam is the nascent ideas of "better crypto" + "web" that may produce something that isn't akin to a turnkey total information dominance infrastructure for the next Putin wannabe authoritarian with more wits and less hairspray. Yeah there will be a lot of scamming. A lot. "Aaaand it's gone" will happen many many times. Is SV working on global warming, alternative energy, species extinction, habitat destruction, artificial meat/protein sources, better housing solutions, and the like? No, SV hasn't done that innovation for a while, since the money is chasing social networks and programmer shutin apps. Luckily, that is happening elsewhere. Like China, or the mystifying hated ElonMuskStan.