Always disappointed to see this kind of tech noir voted to the front page of HN. Sure, there are phonies and grift shift is a cute term, but anybody who uses th

Always disappointed to see this kind of tech noir voted to the front page of HN. Sure, there are phonies and grift shift is a cute term, but anybody who uses the term "terminal" to refer to our economy (similar to "late-stage" capitalism) has no idea what he's talking about. They're a quack doctor offering the sole prognosis of death. The capitalism we are living is complex and adaptive, and that's why it's still running and morphing along. There's nothing terminal about it except in the mind of socialists, nihilists and people who should get outside more. One of his main beefs is that people who don't know or care much about technology suck a lot of oxygen out of the room. Well, sure. Very little to do with capitalism and certainly not specific to tech. Loud people with dumb opinions have opined about important subject in every age. Today, they do the same about politics and finance, too. And this has nothing to do with the abstraction of content, which he invests with too much power. This has been going on since before the printing press, and the daily grind of content has been very real for well over a century at most newspapers, I can assure new. YouTube did not create it. His weird take on VCs is typical of people outside tech who don't understand that many investors have long careers as builders, and have contributed more to the industry than their critics. PG and Andreessen come to mind. They don't need consultants to tell them what to think. Everyone is signaling, because we are a social species, and some things get talked into existence. So what! So-called influencers signal. Tante himself signals his virtues in this bio "De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Comm(u|o)nist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him." Which, frankly, contains terms that attract a lot of grifters, too.