Siliconned Quotes

“The epidemic of tech unproductivity doesn’t just affect tech; it affects a lot of people who have little to do with it. One reason for this is that high-paid, idle techies have a lot of free time and money to spend on all sorts of stuff, from soy lattes to houses, which shapes the wider economy. Moreover, if you remember, a lot of the money which funds tech is other people’s money, as pension funds, universities, and governments channel money toward venture capital, which then goes to tech. Perhaps some of your savings fund tech’s unproductivity.”
― Emmanuel Maggiori, Siliconned: How the tech industry solves fake problems, hoards idle workers, and makes doomed bets with other people's money