this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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A bunch of rich people with questionable morals like having easily influenceable people in power. Especially now that it is legal for presidents to take bribes.
Silicon valley isn't what it used to be
Silicon Valley is fundamentally the same as it's always been, it's just a bigger scale
Specifically, the nerdy-hippy-freethinker cohort did not flourish at anywhere close to the same scale as the get-rich-quick segment of the population as this modern gold rush emerged.
Most tech bros would be stock brokers if born a couple decades earlier.
Oh don't you worry, with FinTech they can be both!
With a whole lot more power