This person is calling our rigged market capitalism silicon valley for some reason.
Silicon valley is just another symptom of letting our oligarchs run the table unopposed. Just another place to spread the sanctioned insatiable greed tumor the Ronald Reagans and Jack Welches let loose half a century ago in the name of cannibalizing society for short term profit.
If you wanted to attack something, attack the markets they trade on, run by shareholders that demand maximum short term profit at literally any and all societal expense. We won’t do shit to anyone mind you, they’re in charge, but I have just as much disdain for Warren Buffett as I do for Mark Zuckerberg.
All billionaires and triple digit millionaires are socially destructive, exploiting workers, buying their own regulators, and robbing commons, the coast they live on and whether they wear shiny shoes or sandals and socks as they inflict cruelty on their fellow man for moooooooore profit is irrelevant.
“The Californian Ideology” is a 1995 essay by English media theorists Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron of the University of Westminster. Barbrook describes it as a “critique of dotcom neoliberalism”.[1] In the essay, Barbrook and Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon Valley in the 1990s was linked to American neoliberalism and a paradoxical hybridization of beliefs from the political left and right in the form of hopeful technological determinism.
During the 1990s, members of the entrepreneurial class in the information technology industry in Silicon Valley vocally promoted an ideology that combined the ideas of Marshall McLuhan with elements of radical individualism, libertarianism, and neoliberal economics, using publications like Wired magazine to promulgate their ideas. This ideology mixed New Left and New Right beliefs together based on their shared interest in anti-statism, the counterculture of the 1960s, and techno-utopianism.[6]
Proponents believed that in a post-industrial, post-capitalist, knowledge-based economy, the exploitation of information and knowledge would drive growth and wealth creation while diminishing the older power structures of the state in favor of connected individuals in virtual communities.[7]
Critics contend that the Californian Ideology has strengthened the power of corporations over the individual and has increased social stratification, and remains distinctly Americentric. Barbrook argues that members of the digerati who adhere to the Californian Ideology, embrace a form of reactionary modernism. According to Barbrook, “American neo-liberalism seems to have successfully achieved the contradictory aims of reactionary modernism: economic progress and social immobility. Because the long-term goal of liberating everyone will never be reached, the short-term rule of the digerati can last forever.”
