Most venture-funded startups solve silly non-problems or in fact cause serious harm to society, but make billions of dollars in doing it.

Meanwhile, we haven't been to the moon since the '70s, life expectancy in the US is declining, and a substantial percentage of our energy comes from coal. Oh, but if you want to bet your life savings on (entries in a distributed ledger that say you own) digital pictures of dog penises, I imagine there's a way to do it.

Technology didn't fix the evil of neoliberalism. It didn't clean anything up. It accelerated the corrosion.