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Counterexample: RaspberryPi. Little tech still has a future (but everything the author says about overhyped Big Tech outfits sounds pretty accurate).

Personally I think it comes down to an over-financialized economy. Raising taxes on corporations and individuals while providing loopholes in the form of writeoffs for re-investing profits in R & D and manufacturing facility upgrades etc. is one obvious solution.

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I don't get Raspberry Pi. The $35 computer that's often out of stock, doesn't include a USB adapter or case, and is rarely found below $70. And the unfortunately complex boot process involving binary blobs. It's not as cheap & open as originally implied.

There's ZERO reason to buy one right now, but when they're at their normal price, they are fun toys.

The price and stock are from current supply problems. I have dozens from when you could get them on sale. The lack of case is for tinkerers to make their own, although there's an official one you can buy now too. Binary blobs are a valid complaint, but machine code will be easily reversed engineered by transformer models in a year or two.

I'm not sure that's a good counterexample? It hasn't been possible to actually buy a Raspberry Pi anywhere in something like a year, though the hype rolls on.

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