[ozgrakkurt]

I live in less developed countries so it is actually useful for me but I see it the same way as you wrote here.

Low-life businessmen ruined the technology outside of some spaces where there is strong tech leadership. They did too much damage to reputation of the whole industry

They did the same butchering to LLM/AI tech.

[netsharc]

Silicon Valley was a place of engineering invention, and then the money-people saw, "Oh, there's riches to be made here!"...

[mrhottakes]

They explicitly built cryptocurrency as a way to hoard more wealth. It was the "engineers" not just the money people.

[ozgrakkurt]

I worked at blockchain companies for 4 years and this is not true.

The ratio of degenerate engineers is maybe 30% but business people is 80%.

People I have worked with were much better compared to other companies I worked in like aviation or consulting

[GlassOwAter]

Same here. I’ve met a lot of smart, passionate people in the space that are very respectable.

[dghlsakjg]

Silicon Valley came up as a result of the military industrial complex in the Cold War.

Money was always the point.