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I kind of have an instinctive dislike of the notion of "thankfulness", like these are pure grants of fortune we shouldn't look too deeply into. The truth is that policy & other things that are actually changeable have a hell of an impact on where and who prospers. You might be "lucky" in a Rawlsian sense to be born in a wealthy area, but the fact that money has been dumped into the SF Bay area for 70 years or so, for vacuum tubes to integrated circuits to microprocessors to AI research to social media startups, has been the result of choices specific people have made.