I think the large reason so many SV types are hostile to it is because it's making their jobs much more complex with little evident payoff. And they're also pro

I think the large reason so many SV types are hostile to it is because it's making their jobs much more complex with little evident payoff. And they're also probably tired of hearing those guys in the office give them advice only to begin going through a divorce over money issues a year later. > And a lot of them say things like “our democracy is in danger” or “this could be our last free election ever”. If you really think January 6 was a close call, where do you think we’d be if Trump had succeeded? ... If Nancy Pelosi’s text messages are any guide, Democrats have joined libertarians in the “actually pretty worried about the government becoming an oppressive dictatorship” club. I don’t think they can say with a straight face that there’s no chance that we ever get fascists who use financial repression as a tool of control. This is a very, very good point. It's like the "you don't need a gun you have the police... The police are killing people for fun" thing, it's always the same people saying both these things. If you really believe that America is on the precipice of fascism, you should want a way out of that repression. In most cases I believe it is cognitive dissonance, but in cases where I'm being asked for donations I'm convinced that this disconnect is deliberate and malicious.