> But what’s so horrible in today’s tech is that a lot of people working on things like 15-minute delivery and cryptocurrencies pretend that they’re solving fun

> But what’s so horrible in today’s tech is that a lot of people working on things like 15-minute delivery and cryptocurrencies pretend that they’re solving fundamental problems, improving the world, and rescuing third world people from poverty. Both gig apps and crypto are very much guilty of such overblown rhetoric. It's testament to how effective the right kind of propaganda can be on the right kind of person. In a lot of these cases it seems to be founded on someone following base motives (e.g. personal greed) adopting a false, ego-protective narrative to justify their actions to themselves. But then they're so forceful and vocal about that narrative, a lot of other people are duped through repetition into believing it too.