[strongbond]

In the UK, the situation is more extreme, where every so-called 'startup' I find is either working in the payments industry (... truly a new furrow to plough /s) or the coin industry.

[thorin]

True, but surely the point of a startup, with real investors is to make money, not "save the world" or "get your ass to mars". Disappointing really.

[kjkjadksj]

Most people aren’t well off enough to live to work on what they want, so they have to work to live and the outcomes follow that.

[seydor]

It has always been like that and people still sought to solve their problems. The problem with bigtech is that it pays too good, so people are incentivized to do nothing

[rchaud]

Isn't that correlated to UK VCs preference for fintech startups?