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The mask really fell with the second trump campaign and yes YC and the broader capitalist class have shown themselves to be enemies of civilisation at this stage. Far from being techno utopians the YC ilk and associates are just your boring garden variety fascists and they will be remembered as such.

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You are blinded by the press, seeing the big valuations and the boardrooms in bed with government and think it's all like that.

In reality startups and VCs are just fancy words for small businesses and banking.

The vast majority of man hours spent in the category of VCs and startups are just that: mundane small business and banking.

You can say that about Wall Street too, or even the oil industry. Lots of smaller players doing smaller mundane things. Logically I know that there are plenty of smaller players doing more neutral or just mundane capitalist things, without world domination plans, but the ethos of the industry has a lot of poison at the top. If this naked power grab doesn't totally backfire (which I hope it does), I'm worried for the path of the entire SV tech industry.

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