> For starters, almost all of them recognize that their industry itself arose out of government funding (see ARPANET), and some of the most celebrated achieveme

> For starters, almost all of them recognize that their industry itself arose out of government funding (see ARPANET), and some of the most celebrated achievements of the digital culture (open source software, Wikipedia) involve commons-based collaboration with no conventional definition of private property whatsoever. It’s precisely because we lack a new vocabulary to describe this worldview that we end up lumping the tech sector together in the libertarian camp. I'm pretty sure that's just a form of socialism. > There’s a real estate crisis in Silicon Valley because the companies in the region are much more generous in the way they share the wealth, not less. Don't forget the fact that no town/city wants to build (or make it easier for developers to build) high density housing despite that it is desperately needed to keep up with housing demand.