[readonthegoapp]

I generally agree with this sentiment

I feel like the US government didn't fund enough of the fundamental research into AR and VR so there was no musk-type person there -- or jobs or gates or whoever -- to come in and privatize it and turn all the free public taxpayer money into private profit.

Or, Zuckerberg tried but got smacked down by the true capitalists in his ownership structure.

And as much as I think vr is gonna help destroy us even faster -- as if that's even possible -- I appreciated that Zuckerberg was like 'fuck it, I am brave or naive enough to believe we don't need that last few hundred billion in free taxpayer money -- we are going to do it ourselves."

And then reality asserted itself.