You&#x27;re rebutting almost all of seanmcdirmid&#x27;s arguments by essentially saying &quot;it&#x27;s not a problem because some SV startups&#x2F;companies do it too.&quot; But:<p>1) You don&#x27;t become the next Silicon Valley through cargo-cult entrepreneurship.<p>2) SV is successful <i>in spite</i> of those things, not because of it, because SV is starting from a position of strength and inertia. SV succeeds in spite of its current problems because of the massive self-reinforcing feedback loop and culture it developed decades ago when these things were not issues.<p>When SV was becoming a startup hub, most of what you and seanmcdirmid talked about were not problems. Housing was cheap, software patent lawsuits were not prevalent, many people were hobbyists, and so on.