Just a reminder that the Silicon Valley you're talking is not a place and his people are not a tribe that just happened to live there, like a nation or culture,

Just a reminder that the Silicon Valley you're talking is not a place and his people are not a tribe that just happened to live there, like a nation or culture, somewhere in the world, you can target with your feelings of resentment towards somebody different. These people are all around you, in every city, in every school. Some are smarter, some are more ambitious. Some can relocate, some can't. There is a fierce competition and only a few of those people flock where the stuff is happening. Money precedes, and follows. One attractor shadows others, as attractors often do. But don't forget that it's just one attractor, operatng on one selection of a thin, yet much much wider sliver of humanity, all spread around the world. If SV were to magically disappear overnight, it's hard to predict what and how and when, but "humanity" will always have its children prodding the limits. When humanity invented X, only a few did actually invent X. Not sure about fire,. but steam engines weren't invented by every person on earth collectively working to make steam engines. Not everybody knew how to build bridges, or navigate oceans, build or fly airplanes. Yet all these are generally considered advancements of humanity. We're born into them. Children play with toy cars. There were no toy cars before cars. Things shape who we are. We shape things