What's driving the increasing worry about and antipathy toward Silicon Valley is who has power. Nothing more or less.
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You can't (ordinarily) bribe or bully your way to making your product the most popular. Users have to like it.
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A lot of people feel Microsoft disproved that idea. Monopolies abound and thrive in tech, and skew things heavily.
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I'm not saying SV is perfect. But there is a qualitative difference between SV "oligarchs" and e.g. those in Russia.
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I agree. But I also think it is wrong to casually dismiss legitimate concerns about concentration of power.
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I agree with you too!
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Who are they? Some folks, activists and free software people, have been concerned for ages. If not just big money manipulating sentiment.
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I hope your point isn't that using $ to influence is a bad thing unique to tech. Any org once it reaches a certain size *has* to do this.
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Not at all. Was responding to Dan insinuating that concerns about SV were just sore losers manipulating public sentiment.
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Of course there is an answer. But yours is not a credible answer. Do you really think that outside of SV they only play zero sum game?
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Are you sure that guys whose declared ambition is to manage all data and information about people are not playing a zero sum game???
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