Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap

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Yea, it’s “tech’s fault.” Not the self-imploding economic system known as capitalism. It’s definitely not the fault of giant tech corporations that have a hand in the government. It’s the streaming, Uber, and the cloud that’s bad.
There are two techs. There is engineering tech like Steve Wozniak at Apple tech, and there is marketing “Tech” like Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos tech, and Sam Bankman-Fried at FTX tech, and Elon Musk tech. The latter is a series of grifts under the brand of “Tech”