Our Fate is in the Hands of Children

Not in a good way. After viewing the Times' DealBook interview of Sam Bankfraud, and following the links to other Silicon gurus, I'm realizing those Tech commanding heights are controlled by children. That is, Gen X ers who never grew up, because they didn't have to. These are Peter Pans in jeans and t shirts hauling in billions with a B and inventing NEW THINGS. For instance, the old altruism wasn't cool so they invented "effective altruism". It's NEW. So it must be better. Crypto itself is NEW and it was supposed to be revolutionary, because, you know, it's a NEW currency. So it would really undermine capitalist inequality and injustice, by eliminating central banks. The libertarian children thought of this. Leaving it to old normies to fix things like climate change or healthcare or housing, these kids want to solve NEW problems like artificial intelligence. I mentioned the constant grousing the NYTimes and other media does about China's Covid restrictions. How the bad government is interfering with the liberty of The People. Sound eerily familiar? Well now that they are easing up on restrictions the Times is worried about vulnerable old people. About a severe outbreak. The real worry, as always, is the global economy.