Remember that time we staffed the financial regulatory bodies with ex-employees of the companies they were regulating?
Yah this time is totally different.
Yah this time is totally different.
Who says it has to be people with ties to the tech giants? You don't need to suckle at Google's teat to understand the underlying technology and advise on it. And introducing an enforced ban on lobbying for x years (ideally forever, imo) after their government employment ends would help curb corruption.
This trope needs to die. Tech people suck as bad as finance people, maybe worse. Can someone else who's also worked in tech and finance chime in here?
Since the mid-90s, there've been an increasing number of money-focused techies. Probably still a minority, though.
In fact, before the 80s, finance was also mostly sincere accounting nerds. Then someone got the surprising idea that bankers could be Masters of the Universe.
It happened to doctors too. And lawyers before that.