The most successful grift of the modern era was convincing the smartest people in the world that “changing the world” means optimizing the click-through rate on ads for mattresses that ship in a box
@Daojoan The smartest person I know is now an actuary in Fintech. He was a maths and programming genius in highschool and he was quite creative. He could have created interesting video games, or invented new encryption algorithms, or cured diseases, or solved hard maths problems. Instead he is just helping rich companies get richer. Such a waste. UBI now please.