Honestly it’s hard to refute the fact that we need roads and houses more than we need cat videos.

The real differentiator though is that the engineers of tangible things can get sued and go to jail if someone dies, but it seems tech companies gets away with atrocities (profits at the expense of teen suicides) with zero repercussions.

But, what is being described is THE EFFECT OF INSTITUTIONS ON INDIVIDUALS. This happens in every industry. The larger the company, the more disconnected people become.

> Honestly it’s hard to refute the fact that we need roads and houses more than we need cat videos.

This is a fundamentalist perspective; it's hard to dispute that if we didn't have any roads, houses, or cat videos, we would need new roads more than we needed new cat videos.

It's much easier to dispute the idea that we currently need new roads more than we need new cat videos; we already have a lot of roads.