Anton Troynikov, a roboticist living and working in Silicon Valley listed similarities between Silicon Valley and the Soviet Union in a series a tweets:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...valley-like-soviet-union-twitter-thread-viral
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Sarah Manavis
6 July 2018
Get ready to be depressed.
On the evening of 5 July, a Twitter thread by user Anton Troynikov went viral listing things that happened under the Soviet Union that also currently happen in Silicon Valley.
We went through every single point tofind examples that back up his point :
- Uber’s self-driving car didn’t malfunction, it’s just bad
- SpaceX will colonise Mars in the next few years says Elon Musk, followed by SpaceX pays $4m to underpaid employees
- Silicon Valley is veering toward fall of Rome territory
- In San Francisco, over 56 per cent of gig economy works rely on companies like Uber/Lyft to make ends meet
- The link between Silicon Valley and the defense industry
- This one we aren’t positive on, but could be something like Facebook requiring employees to go through political bias training
- Theranos charged for misleading investors
- “They'll squash you like a bug”: how Silicon Valley keeps a lid on leakers
- Developers question why Silicon Valley use infamously bad for development MacBook Pros
- Henry Kissinger joins Theranos’ board of directors
- Veritas change in CEO means shedding “dozens” of jobs
- In Silicon Valley, failing is succeeding
- Google only cares about measurable improvements, and their overqualified staff play ball
- Inside the world of Silicon Valley's “coasters” — the millionaire engineers who get paid gobs of money and barely work of course coupled with Silicon Valley is so expensive that people who make $400,000 a year think they are middle-class
- Tech companies
© New Statesman 1913 - 2016
https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...valley-like-soviet-union-twitter-thread-viral
Skip to main content
Sarah Manavis
Get ready to be depressed.
On the evening of 5 July, a Twitter thread by user Anton Troynikov went viral listing things that happened under the Soviet Union that also currently happen in Silicon Valley.
We went through every single point tofind examples that back up his point :
- Uber’s self-driving car didn’t malfunction, it’s just bad
- SpaceX will colonise Mars in the next few years says Elon Musk, followed by SpaceX pays $4m to underpaid employees
- Silicon Valley is veering toward fall of Rome territory
- In San Francisco, over 56 per cent of gig economy works rely on companies like Uber/Lyft to make ends meet
- The link between Silicon Valley and the defense industry
- This one we aren’t positive on, but could be something like Facebook requiring employees to go through political bias training
- Theranos charged for misleading investors
- “They'll squash you like a bug”: how Silicon Valley keeps a lid on leakers
- Developers question why Silicon Valley use infamously bad for development MacBook Pros
- Henry Kissinger joins Theranos’ board of directors
- Veritas change in CEO means shedding “dozens” of jobs
- In Silicon Valley, failing is succeeding
- Google only cares about measurable improvements, and their overqualified staff play ball
- Inside the world of Silicon Valley's “coasters” — the millionaire engineers who get paid gobs of money and barely work of course coupled with Silicon Valley is so expensive that people who make $400,000 a year think they are middle-class
- Tech companies
© New Statesman 1913 - 2016
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