The Dark Flipside of Silicon Valley

How Cyberselfish Libertarianism Killed Compassion, Gutted Regulation, and Took Over the World

von Neriah Valcrest

182 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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The Dark Flipside of Silicon ValleyHow Cyberselfish Libertarianism Killed Compassion, Gutted Regulation, and Took Over the World

Behind every "disruptive" app, every algorithm-driven layoff, and every platform that quietly reshaped how the world communicates, works, and votes, lies a worldview few people have ever named. This book calls it cyberselfishness: a fusion of counterculture rhetoric and unchecked libertarian ideology that convinced a generation of founders their self-interest was, by definition, the public good.

Tracing the path from garage-built startups to trillion-dollar platforms, this investigation exposes how meritocracy became moral license, how "efficiency" replaced empathy in product design, and how gig work, algorithmic hiring, and predictive policing quietly automated accountability out of existence. It examines the philanthropy that shielded reputations, the lobbying that rewrote regulation from the inside, and the antitrust failures that let monopolies grow unchecked for decades. It follows the same playbook as it was exported worldwide, reshaping elections, culture, and civil society far beyond its origins.

This is not an anti-technology book. It is a clear-eyed reckoning with a specific, traceable ideology, one still shaping the tools being built today, and a documented case for why compassion, regulation, and democratic accountability were never optional extras to be added later.

For readers of tech criticism, political economy, and the history of Silicon Valley, this book offers a rigorous, meticulously argued account of how a philosophy born in a handful of garages came to govern the digital lives of billions, and what rebuilding a more accountable future will actually require.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175508209
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Independently published