Alan Dix Snip!t: Shanley Kane of Model View Culture Challenges a “Corrupt” Silicon Valley

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Shanley Kane of Model View Culture Challenges a “Corrupt” Silicon Valley | MIT Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/qa/533096/a-feminist-critique-of-silicon-valley/

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The Valley has bought into the idea of itself as a meritocracy: a world of self-starting, bootstrapping geniuses so much better and smarter than anyone else in the world that they deserve wildly disproportionate opportunities for wealth and power. The problem is that this is the exact opposite of what Silicon Valley actually is: a sexist and racist wealth distribution mechanism that relies on cronyism, corruption, and exclusion to function.

HTML	The Valley has bought into the idea of itself as a meritocracy: a world of self-starting, bootstrapping geniuses so much better and smarter than anyone else in the world that they deserve wildly disproportionate opportunities for wealth and power. The problem is that this is the exact opposite of what Silicon Valley <em>actually</em> is: a sexist and racist wealth distribution mechanism that relies on cronyism, corruption, and exclusion to function.

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The Valley has bought into the idea of itself as a meritocracy: a world of self-starting, bootstrapping geniuses so much better and smarter than anyone else in the world that they deserve wildly disproportionate opportunities for wealth and power. The problem is that this is the exact opposite of what Silicon Valley <em>actually</em> is: a sexist and racist wealth distribution mechanism that relies on cronyism, corruption, and exclusion to function.

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