It seems like Silicon Valley, as it's increasingly moved towards being dominated by a few giants, has increasingly been dominated by the employee bureaucracy cl

It seems like Silicon Valley, as it's increasingly moved towards being dominated by a few giants, has increasingly been dominated by the employee bureaucracy class that you describe. Instead of companies filled with risk takers working for crazy founders, now it's just the path followers playing it safe, checking off the boxes to go get the guaranteed money and not that much work at the FAANGS.