If we gave everyone a billion dollars except you, does it impoverish you in anyway? I think so.
I wrote this article because the tech scene is so disconnected from where it started.
I wrote this article because the tech scene is so disconnected from where it started.
Is cloud-based vendor billing society-changing? Probably not. Do they help out older companies and new startups entering the field by taking care of something nobody wanted to focus on? Probably yes.
I can assure you that people who lived in remote areas found radios that could run off batteries for extended periods very useful indeed (for that matter, people who live in remote areas now find them useful).
If you mentioned inflation, someone would point that inflation has been very low for the past few years.
It's really one of the sadder aspects of human nature. No one can just enjoy how good they have it. We always have to grade ourselves on a curve. Shit, if I compare my life to Rockefeller or JP Morgan, I have it so much better in so many ways. But, no one over feels bad for Rockefeller because that sucker lived before the internet.