> <i>Such hoarding of tech talent represented a tragic misallocation of productive capacity. The likes of Amazon, Meta, Google, and many others added tens of thousands of positions to already bloated bureaucracies, which often just made them slower and less capable.</i><p>world.hey.com adding up the chalk marks on the cantankerous & troublesome but not wrong chalkboard.<p>we direly need creativity & exploration of what computing could be, what tech could be, of opening new less-entrenched avenues. but my god, the last decade has been a horror-show of the very massive titans swallowing all the young, stealing all the talent, sucking all the oxygen from the room.