[cle]

I don't find it depressing at all. I find it empowering. It's the vehicle we use to drive technological progress. We've figured out ways to have people voluntarily give us money to drive technological progress, and so far this has been phenomenally successful. I was just thinking this morning about NASA's use of AWS to crunch data. That was driven by Amazon's ability to get people to buy more things.

[cma]

This is like saying we should create more government beauracy , because the software and computing tools companies will build to deal with it will in the end get us to Mars faster.