True, the leaders at the top have kids but the grunts, the engineers, those are the ones who likely don't at least the ones that are living in the hellscape Silicon Valley. It was a bit of a fun thought to have on a biased moment, and I have no idea about the data behind it but it certainly seems like a foolish direction.
The winner takes all mentality is a problem for sure - and feels like a result of the crony corporate capitalism that we've had over the last 40 years or so where people cheered on the Walmarts of the world destroying many others instead of looking for a diverse landscape. Ah I may just be babbling in that regard.. but indeed at the end of the day so many of us have families to feed, protect and house. How can we get out of the cogs of the wheel?! D:
I don't think you're babbling at all. How many livelihoods have Walmart and Amazon destroyed? Thousands definitely, millions probably. The annoying thing is that taxpayers are subsiding Walmart and Amazon in a few different ways; from the no tax that Amazon pays to the incredibly low wages they both pay that forces their employees to need food stamps to all the businesses that got crushed that no longer exist to tax business taxes.
I don't know how to get out of the cogs of the wheel... the more money these massive companies make, the more they can afford to influence policy... and down and down it spirals until we all just riot or die I guess.
They're no different to the government and in some cases probably pull strings within the government. There's a lot they have to answer for but will they? Unlikely.