[gishglish]

> Coinbase, Uber, DoorDash, and Stripe during the Great Recession. Now that the barrier to building products and companies is much lower than it has been for years, we will see the next generations of rocket ships.

Oh great! I can’t wait for the next generation of unnecessary luxury apps that just provide another lazier way to be a good consoomer.

All while the few necessities that matter, housing, food, etc. become increasingly more expensive and less accessible.

[wiseowise]

Okay, I'll bite.

> All while the few necessities that matter, housing, food, etc. become increasingly more expensive and less accessible.

What does this have to do with Coinbase, Uber, DoorDash, and Stripe?

[gishglish]

Bread and circuses

[bigbuppo]

So, all these people laid off from big companies that were doing real non-chatbot AI and ML research combined with robotics or other machine control to do things that would have changed the world for the better if the project hadn't been killed because it was only making zero billion dollars (the $999,999,999.99 they brought in doesn't count), are perfectly capable of working some place else that wants to, you know, do that farming thing they were working on, or shift gears to building machines that make housing affordable by reducing the labor costs by 75%.