cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5323962
The Grift Shift is a new paradigm of debating technologies within a society that is based a lot less on the actual realistic use cases or properties of a certain technology but a surface level fascination with technologies but even more their narratives of future deliverance. Within the Grift Shift paradigm the topics and technologies addressed are mere material for public personalities to continuously claim expertise and “thought leadership” in every cycle of the shift regardless of what specific technologies are being talked about.
There has been power in creating a new tech stack to blow up an existing business model, which is something that brogrammers want to push as a way to get funding and make money.
The problem now is that the technical aspects of online businesses are showing themselves to become more trivial as the talent to create websites and databases becomes more common.