There is a very long history to these days of Silicon Valley. And I think also, you know, part of it is connected to the ways in which like sectors that are at the frontier and at the top of the American economy are constructed. The power and wealth of these people leveraged a wage war elsewhere to replenish the ecology with literal ecological loot.
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