This is true, but as far as I can tell, does not benefit me much. That's why I mentioned Stripe as something that probably does benefit me indirectly. But a lo

This is true, but as far as I can tell, does not benefit me much. That's why I mentioned Stripe as something that probably does benefit me indirectly. But a lot of the YC companies in particular seem to be making software I don't care about to sell to other companies making other software I don't care about to sell to other companies making other software I don't care about, and so on. The benefit to me of all this activity seems to be so close to zero that the difference doesn't matter.