Silicon Valley Has Long Been About Re-Packaging Bad Ideas

Everything you know and love will be enshittified. And you'll love that too.

The first time I heard someone describe Silicon Valley as a meritocracy, it was said with the reverence usually reserved for religious conversions or near-death experiences. The speaker was a founder, male (white) of course, who had recently raised a seed round to “disrupt” an industry that, until that moment, had functioned tolerably well without an ap…