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Many of those highly talented individuals will likely end up channeling their skills into areas that one could view as equally negative societally Or they coul

Many of those highly talented individuals will likely end up channeling their skills into areas that one could view as equally negative societally Or they could go the other way. Just like after previous bubbles. When the real estate bubble burst and took a good chunk of the financial industry with it, plenty of people went into healthcare, or the arts, or started their own small businesses without the goal of taking over the world. People aren't boolean. They aren't rats trained to only go after the biggest piece of cheese. The vast majority have human-scale goals and families and desires. Very few people, even in the tech sector, are comic book villains.

BoxFour 3y ago
> When the real estate bubble burst and took a good chunk of the financial industry with it… Didn’t a large amount of those finance people just end up at big tech or in crypto? Plenty of news to be found suggesting as such (that people who previously would’ve gone into finance are going into big tech or crypto instead). Which, if true, sort of just proves my original point. Further the list of successful startups from that era aren’t exactly a list of things that people universally consider good for society (lots of gig economy startups, for example).