This is quite a good article for Wired, which is usually notorious for breathless enthusiasm for any capitalistic crap gushing from Sillycon valley "rockstars".

The value which these well known companies and their dubious CEOs provide is actually wafer thin, and is more about holding back or preventing change than enabling it. Other systems exist operating within a very different economic mode, and maybe in hindsight 2017 will have been a turning point.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-other-tech-bubble