> Silicon Valley used to be countercultural, an alternative to Corporate America.

Turns out this is bullshit.

It's fine I bought into it too. But it's a pretty unbroken path from today back through the history of business in Silicon Valley. It's always been a smokescreen.

I recommend this book, it's highly illuminating and specific: https://www.amazon.com/Palo-Alto-History-California-Capitali...

Reading the book Palo Alto was a serious eye-opener into how SV culture came to be the way that it is. Let's just say this goes way, way back.

https://www.amazon.com/Palo-Alto-History-California-Capitali...