i mean do you want the honest answer? i’m not a white american guy so i can say it.

importing hordes of foreign tech workers or hiring asians broadly whose culture is very much the opposite of “don’t tread on me” led to much of this.

might not be comfortable to say but most of our tech companies are led by people who aren’t “Americana” (cultural)

and broadly speaking, there are very few people like me (i’m asian) that value the American way of independence at all cost and most are just strivers and consumerist

so the goal for most of them is to make 300k base and 300k stock per year. fuck the consequences.

the days of making tech for the love of the game are long gone.

Shame that people are down voting you, there's an uncomfortable truth to it I don't think people want to face.

Culture is defined by people not borders- simply crossing an arbitrary line doesn't change someone's beliefs and values.

The immigration boom especially on the West coast has vastly diluted assimilation into American culture- coming from an immigrant, who married into another family of immigrants- too many people move here and stick to their own cultural enclave, building a version of their home country in miniature instead of trying to integrate.

the problem isn't the workers. plenty of "white american guys" with a "don't tread on me" culture share this goal. scapegoating "hordes of foreign tech workers or hiring asians broadly" ignores that the SV culture rewards this.

> so the goal for most of them is to make 300k base and 300k stock per year. fuck the consequences.

"What could be more American than that?" — Wadsworth, Clue (1985)

The fascinating part is that fuck the consequences was until more recently kinda penalized, but advent of tech overlords changed that calculus ( they even have their own saying to capture that 0.