Uncanny Valley

All these people, spending their twenties and thirties in open-plan offices on the campuses of the decade's most valuable public companies, pouring themselves bowls of free cereal from human bird feeders, crushing empty cans of fruit-tinged water, bored out of their minds but unable to walk away from the direct deposits - it was so unimaginative. There was so much potential in Silicon Valley, and so much of it just pooled around ad tech, the spillway of the internet economy.

Maybe we shouldn't all be so quick to identify with charismatic CEOs; maybe we shouldn't assume that the money and the perks and the job market would be there forever, maybe we should factor in the possibility that we might age out. What were we doing , anyway, helping people become billionaires? Billionaires were the mark of a sick society. They shouldn't exist.