> besides a complete atrophy of talent and overall capability, probably driven by becoming an entirely profit oriented company Besides the fact that you didn’t

> besides a complete atrophy of talent and overall capability, probably driven by becoming an entirely profit oriented company Besides the fact that you didn’t add “short-term” before “profit” I’d say you’ve described 90-100% of public companies right there. They are all pretty good at making quick profits, buying back their own stocks, coming up with legal tax evasion strategies, and other things that only add actual value for a few wealthy people, but by any objective measure, what do we do now that we possess technology only dreamed of by previous generations? How about a fridge that has a screen on it, but the fridge itself has a one-year warranty and will probably be in a landfill in 5 years because it’s made shoddily of trash components but uneconomic to fix. A laptop with 8GB of RAM, in 2025, that can’t be upgraded in any way. Tons of things from vapes to AirPods with batteries sealed in, and designed to be discarded prematurely. We don’t have as a society what we had back then. We’re too busy ripping each other off to do great things.