“As the entrepreneur and investor Scott Galloway has pointed out on numerous occasions, big tech are the biggest welfare queens that ever stalked the Earth. They’ve all drawn vast benefits from public money, chased countless tax breaks and demanded even more. Far from being some heroic form of risk-taking done without a single handout, theirs is the capitalism of the school bake sale – someone else buys all the ingredients and does most of the cooking, and the kids then claim they have turned a profit for the good of humanity.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/31/tech-bros-deepseek-china-sam-altman-openai

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The pagan temples are disguised in many ways. The priests use spells of long prayers to extract the treasure of the insecure hegemony. They proclaim, "Here is a great god of wits and mind that will make your citizens dumb and blind. Give us your treasure and this you'll see will double in value from today it be!"

Sounds like a shitcoin.

Silicon Valley. Silly Con Valley. Shitcoin valley...