What I was alluding to is that one of the first comments on this thread was "how do I make money out of this?" That indicates the priorities of the commenter, if nothing else.
All aspects of life in the US seem to be increasingly money focused, driven, or dictated by. It's not just tech but wherever there is more money to be had, there is more focus on money.
At some point, I wonder if our social and economic system becomes a close enough proxy to darwinistic survival of the fittest through capital ownership that a large enough portion of the population realize they would do better outside this construct rather than inside our societies and will begin to reject the system at large.
Right now we are able to provide stable food, housing, and ERs can't refuse people for medical care but stable housing is in the downturn and Healthcare costs that lead to bankruptcy conditions are on the rise. I feel like we're really testing how low many will go before they reject the system at hand and at what point is that number of people large enough to be critical to the existing system's stability.
At some point the effort for comfortable success may become so high people just abandon it entirely.
