"Make something investors want" is the name of the game now and the reason for the disconnect.

Always has been since the ZIRP era. The ‘make something people want’ phrase was coined by a famous Silicon Valley investor. I heard he runs a popular forum.

“Make people want something, and sell it to them”.

Ignore all environmental, political and social problems, and invest everything in a purely antisocial technology.

Yeah but drugs are illegal.

"Make something, then bribe bosses to shove it down people's throats."