before tech had the potential to make my life easier, more fun, smoother.

say what you will about uber but it is a seamless service. there are a lot of great apps out there.

now tech isn't making things better it's rapidly converting to aggressive rent seeking, and everyone can see it.

only a rube thinks Big Tech is going to make tomorrow better for everyone.

I think tech has shifted. It was a relatively balanced political ecosystem, not the far right fever swamp like finance. There were libertarians and communists, now the libertarians that read atlas shrugged have accumulated enough power to make a push to escape democracy, capitalism, and any constraints on their power. So tech isnt what it was when it was the hippie dreamer open source all the things culture people liked.