I like people with scars. They're armoured - less sensitive - maybe haunted by phantoms, but still more durable than what I dislike ...
I don't like people with wounds. They're weakened, hypersensitive, and often in denial.
But the only way to get more scars is to get more wounds, so, well ... it's a gamble, innit?
Some of my friends say I am jealous when I comment on their lifestyles.
It's more like, I think they have bad tastes. But I am too polite to remind them ... maybe I should be less humorous in my speech.
In my short time, I have observed people both rich and poor whom I do not envy. There is a 2x2 matrix of {rich,poor}, {smart,dumb} folks ... and the dumb ones, in my view ... and by dumb, I mean the opposite of smart, meaning they have bad taste ... the dumb ones, generally value things I don't value.
But that's why it 's a matter of taste. Each person finds in society a narrative which helps them to make sense of the world. And each person would find the sensibilities of others to be suspect.
That's the nature of engineering tastes, narratives, and lifestyles.
That's the nature of governance.
The 2020s are a very interesting time for the technology sector. In the 1990s the tech boom was technology focused, and then really nothing new was injected into industry for 30 years ... everyone just worked on reoptimisations on the fundamental paradigm shifts of the 90s ( vis-a-vis Web1... Web2 .. Web3 ).
In the 2020s, finally cryptocurrency's Cambrian explosion and the AI spring (a rise in popularly, albeit built on technological precepts which are both narrow and poor) provide industrialists with paradigm shifts that are actually as different as the Internet was upon its trend.
For now, technology is actually destructive once more.
