I don't think this topic is going to lead to a very HN-rules-and-norms-respecting discussion. :-( One thing that I was wondering about related to this, which m

I don't think this topic is going to lead to a very HN-rules-and-norms-respecting discussion. :-( One thing that I was wondering about related to this, which might be a slightly more concrete question and easier to talk about: In 1996 Paulina Borsook wrote an essay which she later expanded into her 2000 book Cyberselfish, in which she argued that Silicon Valley was super-libertarian in a way that she strongly disliked. There are still people on the left who feel that Silicon Valley as a whole is disagreeably indifferent to income inequality and class issues. (This is sort of like Thomas Frank's complaints: you worry about culture war topics, but you should worry about income inequality instead.) But I doubt many of them would see Silicon Valley as libertarian in anything like the way that Borsook experienced it. Nor do libertarians or conservatives, many of whom say it's now become uncomfortable or risky for their careers to express their views in Silicon Valley. How did we get from a 2000 Silicon Valley in which someone is writing a book like Borsook's to now? Edit: actually, an even more famous example of roughly the same idea is Barbrook (as opposed to Borsook) on "The Californian Ideology" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology which is from 1995.