Being alive today, we have swapped the problems that our parents faced, with new ones. On that point you are correct. However, I don't see how any of those are

Being alive today, we have swapped the problems that our parents faced, with new ones. On that point you are correct. However, I don't see how any of those are relevant to the points being made by the article, as none of the technology companies, nor VC financiers, mentioned in it had a hand in solving those problems. The idealism has been bled out of big tech, and it now mostly only revolves around capturing eyeballs and efficiently selling people badly made stuff they don't need. In my opinion, small tech is where the future lives.