Comment by college_physics
2 years ago
Its part of overall "tech hype fatigue", think of all the waves upon waves, big data, social apps, crypto/web3, self-driving cars, virtual reality, AI etc,
At the same time people's actual quality of life or economic standing is going nowhere, there is fragility that bursts in the open with every stress, politics has become toxic and the environment gets degraded irreversibly.
Yet people simply refuse to see and they keep chasing unicorns.
Everyone is a temporarily inconvenienced multi-millionaire. They only need to get in on the next big thing and ride their way to a comfortable life at the top.
It's called being transfinancial. You feel like a rich person but are born in the body of a poor one.