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> I wonder how this small bubble will be seen in 500 years How much do you know about the movers & shakers in steel production in AD 1520 Toledo? Same, but spi
by karatestomp 6y ago
> I wonder how this small bubble will be seen in 500 years
How much do you know about the movers & shakers in steel production in AD 1520 Toledo? Same, but spice trade merchant-empires in Italy? How many people know more than like 5 names and a couple events or anecdotes (which may or may not even have actually happened) from all of US industry 1880-1930?
There you go. No one but specialists will remember it at all. A couple names might survive but almost nothing about them, and little of it true.
- melenaboija 6y agoThat is actually my point. Knowing what greediness brought to human history seems a good reason to try to change things to better. And I am not talking about this specific case but the whole Silicon Valley phenomenon and the fact of concentrating this amount of wealth in such small community. BTW I am the OP and what caught my attention, besides its veracity, is precisely how this kind of stories have interest in the tech scene that sometimes seem to be totally disconnected from a much broader reality