Scott Dewey Thanks for the response, Scott. Agree with your points, a lot of those marketing distractions are actually detracting from what our technolgoies can truly achieve; we are not even making good use of all of our current capabilities, let alone developing newer tech. I’ve written about the institutional causes in a prior article. While important to combat illusions about individual plutocratic personalities, I think its also important to focus on the institutions that enable such outcomes in the first place; as you indicate, neoliberal policies for instance.