Tech Wealth Followed Implicit Pact To Shun Political Power For Business Peace
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@SamoBurja I think part of it was an implicitly understood social contract: if we’re boring inoffensive liberals who spend approximately the usual amount on the usual pieties and don’t seek to turn our competence/capital into political power, then we will be allowed to run biz in peace.
@SamoBurja That social contract has broken down. I think many in SV are quietly doing math on “Hmm, the peers who have notoriously defected here are being identified as enemies of democracy. That is… within my model now, surprisingly. OK, but do they actually have consequences for it?”
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2 posts@SamoBurja I think part of it was an implicitly understood social contract: if we’re boring inoffensive liberals who spend approximately the usual amount on the usual pieties and don’t seek to turn our competence/capital into political power, then we will be allowed to run biz in peace.
@SamoBurja That social contract has broken down. I think many in SV are quietly doing math on “Hmm, the peers who have notoriously defected here are being identified as enemies of democracy. That is… within my model now, surprisingly. OK, but do they actually have consequences for it?”