Note to PG: when you're in a hole, stop digging. I think the most disappointing thing for me about the first essay was the list of people who he thanked for pr

Note to PG: when you're in a hole, stop digging. I think the most disappointing thing for me about the first essay was the list of people who he thanked for pre-reading it -- were none of those people conversant enough with the discourse around income inequality that they couldn't spot the straw men, or were they just not willing to tell him to scrap it? I mean, sometimes smart pundits go outside their wheelhouse and say clueless things. It happens to everyone eventually. (Heck, Tom Friedman has made a career out of it.) So the fact that he published this clued-out essay on income inequality didn't really perturb or disappoint me -- I was just like, "yeah he did that smart guy thing where he's stumbled into a conversation that he's not nearly as up on as he thinks he is and is going to tell us all How It Is." But the fact that all of his pre-readers are equally clued-out is I think indicative of something larger and more disturbing about Silicon Valley groupthink.