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How Silicon Valley Got That Way -- and Why It Will Continue To Rule

Posted by timothy on from the the-weather's-really-nice-too dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Lots of places want to be 'the next Silicon Valley.' But the Valley's top historian looks back (even talks to Steve Jobs about his respect for the past!) to explain why SV is unique. While there are threats to continued dominance, she thinks it's just too hard for another region to challenge SV's supremacy.

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  1. Re:Remeber by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Keep repeating the thinkprogress bullshit. Seriously, everything in there is a lie. Seriously, his brother was a gunsmith, and muzzle loading rifles aren't that complex. In fact, Daniel and Squire (his brother) routinely went hunting together. See, unlike your bullshit strawman, we believe in partnership and working together to make better things.

    As far as your top tax rate bullshit ... you keep bringing up that lie because it sounds good. You make the pretense that income tax is the only tax there is ... no captial gains taxes, no property taxes, no employment taxes, no inventory taxes (yes, a large part of the problem with JIT is created by the government punishing companies for carrying durable goods. Think about that next time you see stores run out of products. So yes, the top *income* tax rate, designed to fuck exactly one person, has been 90%, but in spite of the continued campaigns to steal from the job creators (yes, capitalists create jobs, unlike the leftists rich of Hollywood who have created nothing tangible or durable), the effective tax rate has remained fairly constant, because you can only squeeze so much blood out of a turnip.

    So, move your happy ass to Russia if you think that stealing from the rich is great, or look at the negative consequences of the french revolution, or Greece today, and realize that your happy horseshit is just that, horseshit, brought by those who stand to profit by manipulating you.

    Remember, when you wipe your ass, you're paying the Koch brothers for building the factories that create toilet paper, and when you shit, you're creating the same horse crap spewing from Bernie Sanders.