> Do policy-makers pander to computing in general?

At the current president's inauguration, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Pichai, and Musk were all seated next to each other right behind the president. Their companies have some of the largest computing footprints in the world.

Some specific ways they've been pandered to include the repeal of net neutrality and reduction in antitrust activity.

> “People incessantly telling you how they use it.”

This happens in too many ways to count. A majority of popular media glamorizes and flaunts wealth and what it buys you - like Succession, The Kardashians, Billions, and all the reality shows about wealthy housewives, about real estate agents and house flippers, about an unreflective businessman who likes firing people, and so on.

Many ordinary individuals do much the same thing on their instagrams, linkedins, etc.

> (Especially for the author who isn’t in the US.)

If we're supposed to be able to identify "it" purely by the statements in the post, then where the author is from isn't really relevant. And capitalism in other places may be less extreme than in the US, but many of the same concerns still apply.