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25. The Ideology of Silicon Valley vs the Idea of Democracy – with Adrian Daub

Is This Democracy

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The Misconceptions of the Tech Industry

There's at least two big misunderstandings that I think at least until quite recently have been very prevalent amongst liberals broadly speaking about the tech world. Where do they come from? Where companies financed entirely by billionaires are founded on this oppression of labor movements like yeah. So there's this or this misunderstanding and this weird but very pervasive idea that they're not just entrepreneurs they’re not just business people they have something profound to contribute about the human condition or whatever where does that start where does it come fromwhy why is that? Well I mean it's hard to say some of it is the is the regional appeal  of northern California where Silicon Valley is located, he says.

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