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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
...People who don't create anything of substance but can put eyes in front of ads are getting all the press and making big money, while guys who invent and build the stuff that really make a difference in the world remain relatively unknown and generally don't become billionaires.
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Bingo! Nowadays it's the drivel that sizzles. This is exactly what I'm talking about.
I agree about Elon Musk. I also think that he and his type are not celebrated as they should be. I guess that's my point, though. Back in "the day" you had people building things with true value like E-trade, Paypal, E-Bay, Google, Yahoo and Double-click. Those were innovate companies with innovative people. They changed the way people do business and they led the news. One of the dot com companies I worked for built a web based ERP system which allowed small companies access to high-end business software that wouldn't have otherwise been affordable to them. Today what is celebrated in tech is the tantamount to reality TV shows. And people are getting paid for the drivel. So obviously more developers crank out more crap.
And don't get me wrong. I don't have a problem with people making money. I just can't wrap my head around making 500,000 a year to regurgitate information to the twitter-sphere. This tells me that I'm trying too hard. LOL. I'm a systems engineer and have designed some pretty cool stuff utilizing many different technologies. But apparently there's more money in selling crap.