“I talk to young founders these days and for them, there’s no other world than the Trump world. I ask them what inspired them to go into tech and they say they read Marc Andreessen’s manifesto, they read Peter Thiel’s books, and I think, “Oh, your brain’s cooked.” They come in pre-pickled. But everyone else who could have told an alternate narrative has been hounded out of the industry.”

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    And the ‘products’ they spruik:

    ‘it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.