These meme is not as valid as few years ago since all the computer based advertisement industry has been commoditised and investors focus was redirected to AI a

These meme is not as valid as few years ago since all the computer based advertisement industry has been commoditised and investors focus was redirected to AI and hardware. This lock-in is an attempt to keep customers paying despite not providing any value over the competition to the customers. All the rent seeking attempts are clues that "tech" has become like the old industries. Even more worrisome, the whole American culture seems to be Europeanised. Traditionally since the last few decades, USA was the land of opportunity and innovation where everyone was welcome and it didn't matter what is your background but now Americans are acting like the Europeans, clinging to the properties they own, rent seeking from the past success and freaking out about foreigners, races, border control and cultural divisions. Isn't it strange that as USA is slowly losing its edge, it becomes like Europe? It used to be that Europeans were freaking out about their data being collected by American corporations and today its the Americans freaking out about Chinese ones.