The enshittification of the Internet? Search results overrun with SEO, internet-connected dishwashers, toxic social media full of dark patterns, discarded Juuls littering the streets, ads on paid streaming services that cut half their content because of mergers, meanwhile the planet is burning.
Yes, there's a burgeoning middle class of engineers who design those Juul pods and build those ad networks, but imagine if all those people were hard at work engineering desalination plants and better batteries. Imagine if that paid better.
That all sounds dramatically preferable to an economy that follows what you suggested and companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, Salesforce, etc etc don't exist because we haven't solved desalination yet
Yes, there's a burgeoning middle class of engineers who design those Juul pods and build those ad networks, but imagine if all those people were hard at work engineering desalination plants and better batteries. Imagine if that paid better.