I'm just so tired of the algorhythms. It's like being in a cage mentally.

Yes, they are certainly guilty of sticking their collective heads in the sand. Most but not all of them.

Thank you all for your advice, it is most appreciated and I will put it to good use.

Bottom left is wrong, should mainstream media spewing the propaganda they have been told to.

I started talking to a friend about this and he called me a tin foil hat wearing conspiracist and said even if it's true him and his company is making money off of it so he doesn't care.

I still haven't seen Oppenheimer, it just sounds like a long boring movie. I'm 70% through the PHM book and I can't wait to see it.

Right. It doesn't need parity with developers, it just needs to be cheap enough to justify the replacement. Also, there are an army of developers right now trying to make it happen, building guardrails and frameworks and even new languages to enable it. If you are an "ok" developer and you don't have a plan B, you're going to be hurting an a few years.

Couldn't this also just end up as a command economy masquerading as capitalism? Basically the oligarchs get together and say ok game over we win, lets divide up whatever is left and milk that cash cow into perpetuity?

Does it matter? It happened, and has been widely confirmed.

It's the hardware, and it feels like mobile in particular is intentionally designed to not be modular. I suspect that is by design to keep it under control of the big companies.

Same. At most I got 15 years left and I doubt I will ever see this changing in my lifetime.

It's competition that is supposed to drive down prices. Doesn't work very well though when you have virtual monopolies and vertically integrated companies to the extent that america has, like Apple and Amazon.