Raw LLM Responses

> but there is serious pushback now from generation z on these questions Push-back from Generation Z is meaningless for another 20-30 years. They don't have power, money, influence, political backing, or the world experience to affect policy as of yet. The millennials had something very similar happen from the 90s to the late 2000s with net neutrality, internet traffic snooping, and encryption. There were news articles, congressional hearings, and lots of people presenting it as the end of privacy and security. For all the yelling, no one with any decision making power cared in the slightest. Now as the this cohort ages and they get into positions of power, for some reason most of those that were so loud about these matters in their teens and 20s are strangely quiet on the topic. It's a lot easier for people to just ignore these things when their income depends on them. For all the bluster, I'm not convinced the current generation isn't going to go the same way as the previous one. For now it really looks like they're just earlier on in the process. As for the distaste for silicon valley? It's not just the ethical quandaries that make those jobs sound less appealing. That has more to do with insane cost-of-living in the region, as well as not necessarily buying into the big-tech culture, with it's endless work-days, grade-school level office politics, and the social media driven push to show how amazing their lives are. Most important, these days you don't have to be in Silicon Valley to work in tech. Gone are the days when California was the tech center of the world. Now it's just one of many places you can go to work in any number of high-tech industries. All the big players recruit people to work in offices all around the world, any a lot of these kids are likely to still end up working for some subsidiary of some large mega brand, or failing that jump into the start-up meat grinder, which is a decision that comes with it's own highly entertaining and ver