You mean... the economy with the highest developer salaries on the planet?[1]

Or the one that has the world's largest startup economy? Or the one that has almost all of the world's top 20 companies by market cap?

[1]https://codesubmit.io/blog/software-engineer-salary-by-count...

> Or the one that has the world's largest startup economy?

The reason there is excess capital is because of opportunistic and predatory behavior. Optimal capitalism, which other countries can't compete with (fully). This doesn't make it a net good for the American public, nor an optimal strategy for other economies.

If you see the startup economy that has minted an absurd amount of wealth for some very talented people as predatory and a net negative for the public, we see things very differently.

And so do most who come to the Valley to be a part of it.

This strikes me as such an abjectly absurd thing to say that I can’t imagine we’ll come to a common conclusion on this.

And by the way, you’re writing this comment on a forum operated by one of the largest “predatory” sources of capital in the Valley.