“’Move Fast and Break Things” was the motto we were all told that was the core of the 21st Century technology leaders.
Not create things, not build things, but take what works and break it.
Not even talk about replacing it with something better, improving things, make the world better, but break things.
And did they break things?
Oh yes they did.
They broke the ability of people to be employed in a decent paying job, they broke the way business worked to sell you products and employ people, they broke apart whole sections of society and made themselves rich beyond avarice.
Billionaires galore. With power and influence. Masters of the world.
Did they address poverty? Inequality? Racism? Sexism? The exploitation of power imbalances that so many succumb to?
Are you kidding?
That’s not what they are for.
They are to move fast and break things.
How many people did they break? How many lives? Social norms? Systems that evolved to give people some semblance of a place in this world.
Oh, they broke things.
Where will it stop?
What will the last thing they break be?
Society? Civilisation? The entire system of established principles that allow the human race to live as a global community?
Possibly.
I mean, we all know you can get rich from destruction, and who better than a bunch of rich white privileged guys when you are looking for destruction?
Destruction is easy. Creation is hard.
And they have never truly tried, truly stated, any visions of true creation, true desire to make things better.
Probably not enough profit in that.
And you never hear of them giving something away for free.
That’s not how you get rich, is it?
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