Does it even work in Silicon Valley? Or is it more like “flout long-standing regulations and then go argue they don’t apply to us because we’re a rideshare, not a taxicab.”
Tech guys think one weird trick can remove politics from politics. This is part of why Bitcoin is so popular. No messy people, just algorithms.
A lot of this comes from the fact that there is almost no regulation of the software industry. They get insanely rich and assume everything else can work the same way if they just delete all the legal if/then statements.
There is almost a uniquely embarrassing feeling to see this bc there was a time that I had somewhat similar thought when I was much younger - and it took a little bit of growing to get out of it. And it is just… so unwatchable that people who are older than me are still very much trapped in this mindset…
I really enjoyed you filling in for Heaton on the We're Not Wrong podcast. It was an unexpected surprise.
Does it even work in Silicon Valley? Or is it more like “flout long-standing regulations and then go argue they don’t apply to us because we’re a rideshare, not a taxicab.”
Tech guys think one weird trick can remove politics from politics. This is part of why Bitcoin is so popular. No messy people, just algorithms.
A lot of this comes from the fact that there is almost no regulation of the software industry. They get insanely rich and assume everything else can work the same way if they just delete all the legal if/then statements.
There is almost a uniquely embarrassing feeling to see this bc there was a time that I had somewhat similar thought when I was much younger - and it took a little bit of growing to get out of it. And it is just… so unwatchable that people who are older than me are still very much trapped in this mindset…
I would honestly question what the modern world owes to this current iteration of tech.
In 25 years of Zuck/Musk types, has per capita GDP growth breached even 3%? Any progress on fixing stagnate mortality improvement? Teen depression?
Looks like you and Max Read had the same idea: https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-cracked-coder-fetish
Damn, beaten to the punch. Good stuff from Max.