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Tech bros must channel the moguls of old to get back in America’s good graces

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In the face of massive public resistance and anger, tech bros need to start thinking like Andrew Carnegie and the “robber barons” of the Gilded Age — or even like Xi Jinping.

The tech world is in bad odor these days.

Social media’s addictive qualities have parents in such an uproar that Meta just agreed to pay out an $18 billion settlement, and data-center projects are facing rejection across the country. 

Yet for decades America’s tech industry was cherished as a center of innovation, a world in which hard-working entrepreneurs started businesses in garages and produced things that made everyone’s lives better.

Because it was constantly innovating, it stayed ahead of government’s ability to regulate it, resulting in “permissionless innovation” — change that didn’t have to ask first.

And that seemed fine, as it brought us personal computers, spreadsheets, word processing, databases, laptops, cell phones, smartphones and social media.

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Silicon Valley was making us richer and more capable, and if it made a lot of money in the process, that seemed only fair.

Until suddenly, not quite a decade ago,........

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