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"Donald Trump and Silicon Valley's Billionaire Elegy" - https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-and-silicon-valleys...

"Secret White House spreadsheet ranks US companies based on loyalty to Trump" - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/15/secret-white...

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Smartest people will be working against that. You're thinking of opportunistic people with myopia.

The law firms failed to do so.

Some of them have certainly flagged themselves as opportunistic and myopic.

Pretty much the entire tech industry has bent the knee by now - they even gifted the new ruler with golden statues. It's not just a handful of people...

Few people have the balls to do the right thing when the risks pass a certain limit. And yet it's most important to do the right thing at the largest scale.

and when Trump keels over and dies, what happens then? sort of a brittle business plan

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