Silicon Valley's Problem
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Silicon Valley's Problem
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#3TLDR: "What if, instead of imploring people to vote on Facebook’s privacy policies, we were pushing Florida lawmakers into fixing the state’s broken voting system? ... Why can’t we, the tech community, figure out how to harness our talent and influence to fundamentally change the way our democracy works — not just for us, when it suits our interests, but for everyone?"
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#4I think she has a point about bubble that Silicon Valley and SF lives in.
Where I think she misses the boat is that the solution isn't to lobby government. Rather people need to remember the world outside the bubble so they can see real problems to work on, rather than the latest cool X-sharing (yes it's a cliche but still true) app to brag about in front of their friends in the coffee shop.
Many of the real ground breaking startups are not coming from the bay area nowadays for exactly these reasons.
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#5That's why I am now here.
I'm starting with bringing dyslexic fonts to peoples' awareness (my blog is always rendered in Eulexia), and then moving on to building dragons ( http://nerdfiles.net/rattelyr-dragon/ ).
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#6The underpinning idea in US governance is the idea that if you don't like the society you live in you can build a new one a little further out west.
Until seasteading becomes feasible SF/the internet is as west as it gets. Amazingly, or unsurprisingly to libertarians, we can build our own society with out government telling us what to do.
What is wrong with people solving their own problems rather than lobbying government to provide a half-assed solution for them?
Frankly, it's rude to go to Washington and tell them how to live their lives, they can see how others live and decide for themselves whether they want to operate that way.
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#7One of the most perceptive posts on Silicon Valley I have read in a long time. Very spot on.
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#8Love this:
Their goal is to make themselves as appealing—or threatening—to a big player as possible so they can get bought out for a few hundred million dollars and then devote the rest of their lives to a) building Burning Man installations, b) investing in other people’s widgets, or c) both. They really don’t care that much about making the world a better place, mostly because they feel like they don’t have to live in it.
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#9The underpinning idea in US governance is the idea that if you don't like the society you live in you can build a new one a little further out west. Until seasteading becomes feasible SF/the internet is as west as it gets. Amazingly, or unsurprisingly to libertarians, we can build our own society with out government telling us what to do. What is wrong with people solving their own problems rather than lobbying gover…
Of course, none of those successive societies built in the West were ever even possible without the support of the Federal government, which continues to this day.
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#10The underpinning idea in US governance is the idea that if you don't like the society you live in you can build a new one a little further out west. Until seasteading becomes feasible SF/the internet is as west as it gets. Amazingly, or unsurprisingly to libertarians, we can build our own society with out government telling us what to do. What is wrong with people solving their own problems rather than lobbying gover…
Of course, none of those successive societies built in the West were ever even possible without the support of the Federal government, which continues to this day.
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