[SilverElfin]

Silicon Valley is all over politics right now. Look at the All In podcast. David Sacks is “AI Czar”. Chamath regularly sucks up to the administration. Palantir (Alex Karp, JT Lonsdale) regularly talk about political things on Twitter and whenever they appear in interviews. Jensen Huang is a major donor to the ballroom project to avoid antitrust of the Groq “acquisition”. Tim Cook gave Trump a gold award to avoid regulatory problems. And there’s Elon Musk, obviously.

The problem is a lot of these folks are cowards too. They keep praising Elon Musk even as he posts (almost daily) things about the greatness of white culture, or creepy AI-generated videos of “sexy” white women in traditional or historical settings. They have said a lot about how important immigration is to Silicon Valley’s talent density but are staying quiet when the DHS openly talks about deporting one third of America (AKA all non whites). They value America’s robust capital and financial systems but stay quiet when the Fed’s independence is openly threatened.

I can agree that California needs to moderate (as does Oregon, Washington, and a number of very progressive states). These states need moderation and balance to fix their budgets, but also to appeal to a broader public politically, so that we don’t keep electing Trumps. But at the same time, I see a major problem arising from concentration of wealth and power. The few that use this power for their own goals or just to get richer, are letting all the other bad things happen. They may not be victims of those bad things, so maybe they don’t care. B ut the rest of us will be victims. I am for free markets but also see a need to talk about reducing the wealth of these ultra rich Silicon Valley overlords, instead of having them be kings at the state level instead of just nationally.