Over the years, with increasing alarm, I watched idealistic young founders aiming to change the world with miraculous digital innovations become sloppy and careless Internet moguls due to ungodly financial windfalls. Even when presented with data that they were doing harm, they shrugged off the consequences of their inventions on the larger world. Worse still, they had started to play the victim. I had dubbed this trend “the grievance industrial complex,” which like the military industrial complex would swell to grotesque proportions over time.
