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No, it’s the business model of YC and “New Silicon Valley.” The original companies that caused people to start calling this entire region Silicon Valley were making—and, in a few cases, are still making—real things intended to make their users’ lives better.

It was the dot-com bubble and its couple of resurgences that really fucked things up here and made everything off-kilter. The finance bros were drawn like vultures to “easy profit,” and brought with them attitudes like treating Google’s chef getting rich too as a “problem” to be “solved” rather than the system working as designed.



Wait, I thought it was called Silly Con Valley because of this exact model?


Yes to both of you. Silicon Valley became Silly Con Valley after the dot-com bubble.


As usual the financial sector is responsible for basically all the financial problems.


Well when everything is based on unsound money, and a literal ponzi scheme the entire financial sector is the largest con ever created

I am not sure how civilization was dupped into the mass delusion of our current economic systems but I do believe we are seeing them unwind right now... the Fed and other controllers have been attempting to catch a falling knife for at least 15 years if not longer... at some point they will loose that battle


It starts with interest on a loan, then slowly snowballs as everything is gradually cleaved away from reality.




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