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I said they were similar in "mindset and outlook". Would Silicon Valley hesitate to cause humanitarian crises in the name of profit? What if those crises were very only indirectly linked to their behaviour?

What if Silicon Valley discovered today that they were putting millions of low-skill Americans irreparably out of work. Would this motivate them to modify their libertarian ideology, or lobby for free educations for the poor?



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