> There’s now overwhelming evidence of how destructive the new tech can be. Just look at the metrics. The more people are plugged in, the higher are their rates of depression, suicidal tendencies, self-harm, mental illness, and other alarming indicators.<p>I think that is important to see the effects of a hyper-connected society from a public health standpoint, but I do not buy that kind of cynic argument, because it's shaped without any nuance that is it hard to take the writer as a serious person. Background and ecological factors affect the way that we see technology.<p>I came from a scarcity world and digital technology was the entry point for my community to be more affluent, and intellectually free and make education more accessible; on the other side currently, I live in a hyper-post-scarcity society that sees technology as a threat from the democracy perspective and in terms of privacy.<p>> That’s especially true because our leaders—political, business, or otherwise—are letting us down. For whatever reason, they refuse to notice what the creepy billionaires (who by pure coincidence are also huge campaign donors) are up to.<p>That's the main issue that I have with this whole tech fear argument: most of those are completely out of touch with the current state of affairs on how society and the political system work.<p>In the post-scarcity society in which I live, people are more concerned about immigration, inflation, and societal return over their taxes (especially the working class). Of course, governments can work in parallel on several things but capping any random billionaire tech company won't change that reality and most of the times it hijacks the whole debate around more important things.