Comment by southernplaces7

"Silicon Valley built up decades of trust – a combination of social contracts and faith in the mission. But the step-up in the capital deployment is what Deleuze would call a deterritorializing force, for both companies and talent pools. It breaks down the existing rules of engagement, from the social contract of company formation, to the loyalty of labor, to the duty to sustain an already-working product, to the conflict rules that investors used to follow."

Stopped taking this thing seriously with blurbs like the above. If anyone thinks that Silicon Valley was somehow previously ruled by some magical altruism that has now been forsaken, they're in a little cloud of their own. The motives have always been more or less the same and even many of the people too, and there's no mysterious corrupting force that made any of that different then or now.

More money flowed in, technology developed more inroads into more people's lives and thus, the surface area over which the essential nature of tech business (like any business really) could be revealed more clearly expanded. This post is partly deluded.