Note to PG: when you&#x27;re in a hole, stop digging.<p>I think the most disappointing thing for me about the first essay was the list of people who he thanked for pre-reading it -- were none of those people conversant enough with the discourse around income inequality that they couldn&#x27;t spot the straw men, or were they just not willing to tell him to scrap it?<p>I mean, sometimes smart pundits go outside their wheelhouse and say clueless things. It happens to everyone eventually. (Heck, Tom Friedman has made a career out of it.) So the fact that he published this clued-out essay on income inequality didn&#x27;t really perturb or disappoint me -- I was just like, &quot;yeah he did that smart guy thing where he&#x27;s stumbled into a conversation that he&#x27;s not nearly as up on as he thinks he is and is going to tell us all How It Is.&quot;<p>But the fact that all of his pre-readers are equally clued-out is I think indicative of something larger and more disturbing about Silicon Valley groupthink.