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How State Funding Built Silicon Valley w/ Margaret O’Mara

Tech Won't Save Us

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The State of Capitalism in the 21st Century

I think the class mobility story of the valley often gets lost because now you have to have a great deal of privilege, class privilege, economic privilege. I mean, look, lhike, this sort of low tax environment hasb been something check leaders have worked very hard to effect over the last forty years. And we've kind of gone to this really artificial austerity that has generated an immense amount of wealth for parts of it. But has it been good for the broader whole? Has it generated better technological advancement or contributions than the alternative?

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