Post-scarcity utopia was not an uncommon thing in mid-20th-century sci-fi, especially when you also include Soviet Bloc countries.

Collapse in a sense of many existing power structures becoming meaningless, yes, certainly.

But that is a good thing.

Your argument seems to be boiling down to, there's no point to improve quality of life because billionaires are just going to hoard all the improvements.

Surely the problem with that is the billionaires, not the world of abundance though?

With UBI, everyone is going to pay into that via taxes. It's not any different from other forms of welfare.

Is Microsoft a "dying company"? The stock market certainly thinks otherwise.

> Is Microsoft a "dying company"? The stock market certainly thinks otherwise.

This is the entire sentence that I wrote that you seem to be referring to:

“These are examples of how bad management thinks, or at best, how management at dying companies think.”

MS falls under the first part — bad management. Let literacy be your friend.

To elaborate, yes, I think that MS is managed incredibly poorly, and they succeed despite their management norms and culture, not because of it. They should be embarrassed by their management culture, but their success in other areas of the company allows the bad management culture to persist.

What successful tech companies don't have "bad management", then?

There are so many options for what you describe. E.g. the whole point of Tcl/Tk is to allow easy creation of small little tools and apps. And you can use Tk with Python as well.

Zed has a menu tho?

> TUIs are typically small, low footprint applications

That ship has sailed. These days, TUIs are often Node.js / React monstrosities. Claude Code is a case in point.

> Except for MKBHD and Linus Tech Tips, all (most?) the channels I listed have Patreon, and still find it necessary to in-video ads because it's not enough.

Some of them will go subscription-only, which means that many of the free users will leave, but those who don't will pay enough to support the channel.

And some will find that the content they produce isn't actually valuable enough to sufficiently many people. Which is unfortunate, but has to be balanced against all the negative externalities of ads.

Nevertheless, if it takes a lot more effort to do, there will be less of it.