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they were only high-tech workers archive/abolish-silicon-valley

With few exceptions, these twenty-somethings had boxed their lives into a tiny corner of experience: they were only high-tech workers who thought that their title was the key to the universe. Most of them had chosen a high-tech career because they felt it was a safe place to exist. In school they h…

—p.138 Down and Out in Silicon Valley The Quality of Personal Life in Silicon Valley (123) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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not having developed a long-term sense of self

The twenty-somethings, not having developed a long-term sense of self that enabled the older men and women to prevail over expected economic tribulations, were vulnerable to psychological onslaughts on their sense of self [...] They had graduated in complicated technological arenas and felt smug ab…

—p.136 The Quality of Personal Life in Silicon Valley (123) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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a company was only a company archive/abolish-silicon-valley

The companies they worked for created wombs in which all their creature-comfort needs could be satisfied. It seemed great at the time they started their employment, but three or four years later [...] began to understand that a career was just a career, and a company was only a company, not a lifet…

—p.131 The Quality of Personal Life in Silicon Valley (123) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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unhappiness is not a sign of individual failure

[...] they were feeling depressed; while the stock market soared, their souls were plummeting. They were unhappy, but the media was telling them that the size of their bank accounts and the prestigious jobs they held qualified them to be exceptionally happy. They were feeling guilty because they "s…

—p.126 The Quality of Personal Life in Silicon Valley (123) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
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we're going to become billionaires

In the warp speed time of less than two years the tangible sixty-million-dollar investment turned into congealed snow. As the film documents their business descent into oblivion, the two entrepreneurs are shown in psychologically naked disarray, in contrast to their euphoric beginning. When their s…

—p.112 The Dot-Com Firestorm (103) by Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler