He means his life is disrupted. He doesn't like Google / Meta's influence on emotions / politics, not because he has a problem with that in general, but because journalists like him view it as their god given right. And by "compromise the political process" he means the tech industry does the exact thing he built his career doing. But he is right about one thing. I don't have a shred of empathy for the journalists.
Same old technological advancement they championed coming for them.
Too bad for them they had too little vision and skill for engineering which led them to erroneous conclusion hardware would never evolve to be self-configuring even though its a long sought goal of hardware engineering
I mean this is the US, where it could be argued the lack of social safety net means none of us really have empathy for our neighbors. Same as I am not out there feeding homeless, if you end up living in your car, oh well.
Do all the sincere, hard-working, risk-taking startups deserve to be painted by the same brush as Facebook?
This reminds me of when someone outside California asks what city someone is from and they say Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. No, that's SF.
This is just false. The growth of income inequality does not diminish the clear global trend of increased median income and consumption.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income?tab=l...
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