| The “wokeness” of the silicon valley is skin deep when it comes to money. It’s about giving us coastal liberals fake warm and fuzzies so that we will ignore the source of our employers’ wealth. “We are super lgbt+ friendly and our CEO is gay. We are so inclusive here is a picture of him with Mohammed BoneSaw, who would gladly behead 80% of the company for being infidels who do not follow wahhabist philosophies”. Don’t worry. If it comes up in conversation, Somebody will quickly change the subject and say: “women can kind of drive there, and now that Ivanka made it so Israel can trade with KSA and UAE thanks to the ‘Abraham Accord’ it’s all good, man”. The important thing is that money exchanges hands and the forms have been followed (intentional Dune reference). It doesn’t matter where that money came from as long as it isn’t Iran or North Korea. This is about disrupting it, crushing some sweet valuations, and making a killing. Now get back to bitching aboit the homeless people you have to step over on your way to $10 lattes and $15 avocado toasts. Cash rules everything around me, get the money. Dollah dollah bill y’all. (Edits: typos. Neuropathy + small iphone screen makes accuracy difficult) |
Realistically, decoupling from that dependency is tough. Just read through the "Free Land - Living off Grid With No Money" thread [1], and the challenges of decoupling are laid out on just the individual level. It's going to be even tougher to accomplish as you scale up.
I think that decoupling is a worthy goal. It adds resilience. But not everyone shares that point of view.