Comment by pixl97

>Five humans with five laptops can create a lawn maintenance app worth tens of millions.

And

>totally anemic everything-else scene

A lot of the 'growth' we've seen seems to be consolidation and bilking of the consumer by rents. If we look at other countries with actual competition in manufacturing like China we see tons of brands with quality everywhere from use once and throw away to actually really good products. The profit chasing will eventually kill us as we have nothing that will produce actual value.

(Also I love how you're getting voted down for pointing out the obvious).