[jondubois]

As an open source developer who enjoys coding, a lot of these thoughts resonate strongly with me but this article is overly pessimistic. It's OK to be pessimistic but that doesn't mean you should stop trying to make things right because otherwise it becomes self-fulfilling.

Also, we shouldn't look at fiat currency as the only form of achievement, especially given the artificial economic environment of the past decade. Many smart people know that Slava co-founded RethinkDB and realize that it's one of the best databases in existence. That genuine brand value is way more valuable in the long run than worthless fiat paper or company stocks whose earnings are denominated in that same worthless fiat.

It's important for millennials to realize that the past 10 years of monetary policy which contributed to significant centralization of wealth and power is not normal and it won't last.