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Of Tech Moguls and Gold Miners: A Capitalist History
Notes from America with Kai Wright
The History of the Silicon Valley Suicides
A lot of people will remember the so-called Silicon Valley suicides. When did you notice that and what about it? You think is important sort of backstory for the history you tell. It's basically concurrent with my childhood, my siblings childhood and actually extends into the present even as I was writing the book. There was another suicide of a young person grew up in Palo Alto. The train tracks which run through both high schools in the town was a really resonant place for this town. That was a method of suicide that these kids were using that the CDC normally doesn't count because it's just not very common.
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