When Will Hackers Become the Commodity They Deserve To Be?

Very interesting question. I think the answer is they won't become respected until neoliberalism is proven not to work. Those with money, and those who are controlled by money, still think that human beings are expendable and that anything a human can do will eventually be replaced by a machine. they would prefer this because machines don't complain about work conditions or living conditions and since they are not in business to make people's lives better or make communities stronger, they don't care that this would result in millions of people having no income. even those who seek to replace income with a basic stipend don't understand that life needs to have meaning. And none of these corporations have realized that if people continue to lose jobs, at some point they will run out of customers. Many are already diversifying though, since they can make as much revenue supplying only the rich or other corporations with goods, or even just from government grants and playing the stock market.

this leaves them completely vulnerable to cyber warfare of course. the countries that get on the right track will never actually win vs those that don't, but they will minimize losses such that government revenues can be spent more on people than on propping up corporations.