  > In the 80s and 90s there was much more idealism than now.

that idealism was already fading by then, which had started much earlier in the preceding decades (see, memex/hypertext etc)

  > tech has devolved into a big money making scheme with only the minimum necessary actual technology and innovation

in the end, they are businesses, so it could be assumed that such orientation would take over in the end eventually though, no?

its the system of incentives we all live under (make more money or die)

▲ ryandrake 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> make more money or die

This is not true for the vast majority of people making these things. At some point, most businesses go from “make money or die” to financial security: “make line go up forever for no reason”.

	▲	throwaway894345 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		i discovered the meaning of life and its name is “increasing shareholder value”