If this is depressing let me tell you about quants and consultants, the true black holes of human capital.

I'd rather the brain power be used on creating art/empowering artists and intelligently answering prompts as opposed to creating a surveillance state to show ads, thinking of ways to lock down computers so they are no longer general computing devices and just corporate app delivery devices, refactoring a website again to use a different JavaScript framework, figuring out how to insert middleman payments at scale into food delivery, etc.

Instead of just providing good services, we create new services to enable the original services to exist with the deficiencies they have, now you’ve got n services that enable 0.5 of the services you originally wanted. Sounds like a familiar problem to me. shudders

Current capitalistic system defines what is valuable or what is not. As long as your solution to a problem generates a profit, the thing you are doing is valuable....