Why So Much of Silicon Valley Is Mum About Minneapolis(nytimes.com)
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Why So Much of Silicon Valley Is Mum About Minneapolis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/opinion/silicon-valley-trump-minneapolis.html
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It's an opinion piece from a former Square exec, Aaron Zamost. He writes: "... when the job market is tight, hiring top talent can be nothing short of a matter of survival. And they are fishing in a largely progressive pond ... what did companies do when a generous compensation package was no longer enough to win over candidates? They instead sold a sense of belonging ... A new economic reality following the height of the pandemic ... Because they no longer needed to compete for labor at any cost, executives exhausted by their formerly empowered employees were happy to take back the control that they’d ceded ... The recent reassertion of managerial prerogative was only possible in an economic environment where top executives could flex their muscles like a boss."
I’m guessing it’s probably that temporarily aligning with the new presidential priorities is seen as a political expedient for achieving the goals of the billionaire owners and investors of big tech. But I simply don’t care enough to jump the hoops and read about it.