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I Was a V.C. Partner. We Can't Let Silicon Valley Buy Democracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/opinion/silicon-valley-ai-politics.html
5•sebastian_z•1h ago

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JumpCrisscross•1h ago
It won’t. What these folks might engineer, however, is a popular turn away from technology and capitalism for a generation or two. Good job.
jfengel•4m ago
A guy wrote a book about that, about a century and a half ago. He said that it was inevitable for the venture capitalists to buy democracy. They're always the first investors, and so they always get all of the profits. They have the money, and since you can't do anything without money, they get to write the rules.

He even named the book after them.

Unfortunately, he was really vague about what to do about it. He was better at diagnosing the problem than prescribing solutions.

But he made a pretty compelling case that absolutely nothing is going to constrain the VCs until it finally tips over into violence. Even if one or two goes to clutch his pearls at the friendly New York Times, the choir will sing "Amen" but nobody who matters will do anything.

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1•maxloh•30s ago•0 comments

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1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

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1•JumpCrisscross•2m ago•0 comments

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1•trilogic•2m ago•1 comments

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2•randycupertino•3m ago•0 comments

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1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

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3•Anon84•16m ago•0 comments

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1•HoyaSaxa•16m ago•0 comments

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4•doener•17m ago•1 comments