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Silicon Valley got what it wanted
It's not just Elon Musk. It's a new day for deregulation, crypto, and tech companies cozying up to Trump.
The CEOs of Google, Meta, and Apple all apparently called Trump in recent months, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos now-infamously spiked his newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris—which, again, if you are looking at things from a perspective of cold business calculus, will likely turn out to be a materially valuable decision. Trump rebranded himself a crypto champion, of course, and Fairshake PAC, a pro-crypto lobbying firm, used tens of millions of dollars in its war chest to successfully swamp candidates in races across the country deemed unfriendly to the industry. A world where we are encouraged to build community and seek engagement on social media platforms owned by billionaires, to disparage the other for clout, vie to strike it rich with the right crypto trade, or outsource our thinking and creativity to generative AI.
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