One of my deepest worries about the field of software engineering is what happens when people in general stop responding to ads or irritating demands to engage. Suddenly, the demand for software becomes much smaller than it is today.
I'm never happy about people no longer having jobs, but there's an entire swath of the industry specializing in building crap apps/sites specifically to 'all your data now belong to us' that could just go away and make the planet a better place. That's one of the rare occassions that I actually agree with that lame SV phrase.
