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When did silicon valley shift from "making the world a better place through disintermediation of relational data structures" to "own the means of production, control all government and bring back public hanging for masculine leadership"? Are they immature enough to think that people will just accept this without pushback? This is not the SV I believed in, and it won't end well for anyone.

Probably sometime around the early 1800s

Malcolm Harris wrote a book “Palo Alto” about how this culture took root in SV long before it was called Silicon Valley: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/10/palo-alto-book...

As an outside observer, hasn't Thiel's Zero to One has been treated like a gospel basically since it's publication in 2012? Aiming for monopolies and total control has been part of the strategy for a decade now.

No. Lots of us founders recognize that ecosystems create wealth and opportunity. Monopoly destroys it.

It works for one person on the short term but erodes society and all future opportunity.

Ecosystems are what built SV dispute a few selfish monopolistic pricks.

I don’t agree with this at all when you look at how much founder reinvestment in other younger founders has driven the ecosystem over generations.

When did SV ever actually do what you're claiming? Need to see some evidence of this claim before taking it as true.

From my observations, SV just had good marketing and PR during the 2000s - 2010s.

Are a few hand-picked winners from VCs hand-picking the next generation's winners _actually_ creating any sort of social prosperity?