[throwaway8291]

It's also the beauty of capitalism and the creation of new types of work, that can provide value. For every like factory there is a fraud detection startup, so everyone's a winner.

Never mind where the "problem" came from in the first place.

[onreact]

Yeah, create the problem and then provide the solution is one of the best business models.

Climate change is also making people rich now due to this logic.

[throwno]

It is saving anyone from having to actually innovate. Remember when there was a rush of "but on internet" patents and businesses? Well, now there's a bunch of "but green this time" businesses. Not to say they aren't needed, but redoing the last 100 years of tech isn't really moving us forward.