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Because the sky high IPO valuable was mostly based on SpaceX being an AI company that has a huge TAM. Things that have nothing to do with space (please don't say space data centers).

And big tech is a large part of most indexes

I think it just accelerated the nihilism.

The thinking might be - what does privacy matter when you are trying to escape the permanent underclass?

In my personal experience I am just too burnt out by the industry and rate of change to care about much of anything.

>this feel like changes from the outside, but perhaps it's all business as usual and feeling the same on the inside :)

Because many people in this country just go by vibes and don't really care what is happening.

I'd only heard of it in the context of a solar flare blowing out all the transformers and we'd be SOL

More like a captive audience of people who have self selected for having disposable income that they don't mind being parted from.

I agree. If you feel previous social systems of justice and fairness have eroded, the only outlet that seems reasonable is "democratic" mob action.

Anyone have experience learning a new language in their 30s? I've tried and failed a few times. I can't tell if the time constraints (family, work, life) or mental constraints are the bigger problem.

>Good luck finding a representative that is against data centers, flock, Israel, congressional stock bans and pausing and regulating AI, views overwhelming popular with the majority of the actual American public.

That is rapidly becoming Democratic party orthodoxy. At the very least there are a sizable number of Democrats who fit that.

Democracy in business would be worker co-ops or employee ownership schemes. It would still be fully market-based, not planned.

I can acknowledge that I should be vegan and still be unable/unwilling to make the sacrifices to do it.

People are flawed.

Competitive authoritarianism is a closer term that IR people use.

But the people generally seem to want whatever the person who spends the most money on media says they should want.

It strikes me how broad the range in work experiences are. I have never had coworkers who cared about anything besides getting the work done. The idea of politics in the workplace is foreign to me, but I know it is common.

Popular influencers have talked about them more recently. I think it also coincides with the zeitgeist of "oh yeah my local politics are important and affect my life"

People are being awakened to that reality by the proliferation of data center projects where their local leaders green light projects that people feel will negatively impact their community.