Why does the current incarnation of Silicon Valley have to always be shady? Why can't it say 'our service is X' and then deliver service X, not some who knows what other agenda? A car parts store just sells car parts, they don't change and offer refrigerator parts since they already have a distribution system for parts and then tell their customers 'we have to do this in order to keep selling car parts'. Also, 'we are shifting our required by law in store oil recycling to 'contractors' and if they happen to just be dumping it into the river not our problem, wasn't us, we tried' (narrator: they didn't try).
Silicon Valley deserves the hate and bad reputation they now have. They've acted in bad faith for too long while fostering an air of 'trying to make the world better'. I'm so glad they've lost their sales tax exemption and I hope they get kneecapped on every other 'advantage' they have (i.e. 'we don't have employees, we are empowering independent contractors who happen to look just like employees').
America had so much optimism for tech and now they hate it, maybe reflect for a bit on why.