That&#x27;s not the Silicon Valley mindset, that&#x27;s the Wall Street mindset, which was unfortunately exported to Silicon Valley sometime between the dot-com boom and the mid-2000s.  Corporate raiders started dismantling the labor&#x2F;capital social contract in the 80s.<p>I would also be very skeptical of any politician who claims to be the solution to this.  They&#x27;re using you; economically frustrated masses are a very good way to gain power.<p>The people I know who actually manage to cobble together fulfilling lives today usually do it by thinking locally: developing local friendships, local business relationships, consumption preferences that reflect what <i>they</i> want, and then opting out of the national conversation.