You got a good point. SV types like HM tend to be textbook examples of Dunning-Kruger in action.
1. Read Wikipedia on another field
2. Decide, based on that knowledge, that the field is “ripe for disruption”
3. Usually fail miserably if parasitic ad tech isn’t the core business model
Even politicians show more humility than these people. It’s as if typing into a computer makes them think they are omniscient high priests. Most of them even have the gall to call themselves engineers. We don’t call machinists engineers, and most programmers are digital machinists.
Good news for google shareholders: looks like google is returning back to its roots creating nightmarish ad tech tools to further their goal of turning the world into a digital panopticon. Bonus points for simultaneously crowding out competitors and further solidifying their ubiquity and monopoly.
I understand your position; however, I think it comes from a position of privilege that both of us share. Do you would consider yourself a worldly person who can put themselves into other people's shoes? If you can, then consider this: the people are who left behind in culture, economy, and the political system do not want to be transient workers who move from one city to the next. That is a projecting cosmopolitan values and perspectives unto people who have decades and sometimes maybe centuries of history in their area. How would you feel to leave behind everyone you know and everything you are familiar with?
If you want to understand the rise of racism, look into the split labor market theory[1].
If you still believe that 70 million people (in the USA) are upset because they are lazy, stupid, trash and that these populists, like wizards, conjured up their latent virulent racism for their own power with no other possible explanation read: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/are-co...
The ticket into the elite professional class who controls the economy, government, and culture is a basic four year degree. It is becoming virtually impossible for working people to obtain that ticket. The working class only has numbers as its power.
The erosion of unions, mass-membership civic organizations, and the elitism of modern political parties has eliminated the voice of working people in the west. Political democracy is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a democratic society. The economy is increasingly controlled by oligarchs, for instance.