There's something deeply wrong when the best purpose humanity can find for all the effort that goes into things like 5G and EUV lithography is to use it to keep people addicted to Facebook and unregulated gambling ("game with in-app payment") apps.
I realize not everyone is doing what I'm doing. But, seeing my friends' baby's pictures and all on Facebook isn't altogether worthless.
There's a limit to useful cynicism.
There are a good number of excellent mobile games though: Monument Valley comes to mind.
That's true. I also read a lot comments on hacker news.
While we could survive with so little work, others keep us in artifical scarcity to elevate their quality of life and protect themselves from people more predatory than them.
Everything is designed to extract the maximum amount of money possible, and ideas are only good if they generate money. And nobody sees anything wrong with that at all, long-term. It's interesting to watch, as someone who comes from a different upbringing.