The problem is not that this technologies are or aren’t a grift, the problem is that they are used to grift (and that the 4th power that is supposed to protect us against this isn’t doing its job).
In that sense : every next technology will be a grift. Look at spaceX, he sold refueling booster as the next step in human space exploration evolution and finally its just another company used to mine our data. Grift
The problem is not that this technologies are or aren’t a grift, the problem is that they are used to grift (and that the 4th power that is supposed to protect us against this isn’t doing its job).
In that sense : every next technology will be a grift. Look at spaceX, he sold refueling booster as the next step in human
space explorationevolution and finally its just another company used to mine our data. Grift