[fnimick]

> Silicon Valley was full of founders who genuinely wanted to use technology to make the world a better place

No, it wasn't, it was full of people who said they wanted to use technology to make the world a better place because saying you would use technology to make the world a better place was viewed as the path to investment and success.

Now, as soon as feigned empathy is no longer required for $$$, the mask comes off. It was never about anything other than profit.

[goatlover]

And yet their base ate up the claim that DOGE was about getting rid of waste, fraud and abuse.

[krapp]

To be fair DOGE was the ultimate SV neo-libertarian power fantasy. Just get a bunch of hackers together, screw the rules, get root on the government and start deleting shit. Doubly so after a "leftist" administration.

[yoyohello13]

Correct! The reason so many Silicon Valley types love Trump is they can finally stop pretending to care about people.