The issue is not of value depreciation; anyone willing to drop a few thousand on a new car understands it. New buyers are pissed because they lost the opportunity cost game. They wanted their new toy NOW, and are crying because they're out thousands of dollars because they couldn't wait.
>They are never dumb, but upper-middle-class, pretty smart people that have grit and drive and creativity and vision and edge and a different way of thinking about the world. That is what I think I’m good at spotting, and that is what I think are good founders.
Pretty sure everyone on hacker news would identify with his description, but would be terrible founders. Like me!
There's already a budding anti-tech movement. People destroy robots. There is a mistrust between users and services. This is definitely not the answer HN would like, but this can grow into a full-blown anti-tech counter-culture where people don't use smart phones or laptops, and instead pickup less invasive devices like the lite phone 2, nokias, pay-as-you-go flip phones, etc. There's a large dissent towards office work now, and developers themselves opt to be freelancers. There have been many privacy breaches which is a cause of people putting too much of their personal information in the hands of private organizations. It's inevitable people will get tired of social media. The technology industry will still exist, but there are literally hundreds of promising technologies coming along. I guess what I'm trying to say is they're no use to a regular person, and they'll be silo'd off into their own sector. Tech is not going to take over. It will only and always supplement humans, as it should.