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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

Developer Dave Grauer has a long blog post about the broligarchs of Silicon Valley [ratfactor.com] where he asks how they became the face of "technology" and examines how that came to be and what can be done to correct the error.

To be sure, the big software companies were often stupid and greedy, but they seemed relatively harmless to me during that time because progress was so fast, everybody was racing just to keep up. Nobody could capture the market. It was too quick and too slippery to hold.

[...] It would be easy to wrap up in that nostalgia like a warm and comfortable blanket and say that nothing will ever be as good ever again.

So it might surprise you to learn that’s not how I feel at all. In fact, if you ask me, right now is the most amazing time to be in computing.

I’m serious. RIGHT NOW is, in a number of ways, far better than when I got started.

Here’s the facts:

He provides a lot of examples of both what has happened and ways, both big and small, out of the situation.

Previously:
(2018) FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks [soylentnews.org]
(2016) Where Are the Other 10 Million Panama Papers? [soylentnews.org]
(2014) Inside the Mind of an Oligarch [soylentnews.org]

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