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> They aren't the picked upon underdogs no matter how many of us might still think of them that way.

Well, when you narrow the scope to "obvious tech" and brand names end users recognize. However, Silicon Valley is still small compared to the influence of, say, Wall Street.

I guess what I'm saying is that some other institutions may benefit from letting them occupy the public eye.



If you compare: Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google (Alphabet), and Microsoft on the one hand to JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs on the other, the tech companies have 2.6 times the market cap, 1.6 times the revenue, 1.1 times the net income available to common (a measure of profit) and .7 times the domestic work force.

I wouldn't say they are small compared to Wall Street.


Besides that, the proposition that we should ignore one large industry because another is larger strikes me as obviously wrong.


> the proposition that we should ignore one large industry because another is larger strikes me as obviously wrong.

But not nearly as wrong as ignoring one large industry because another one is more visible to consumers.


I don't think any newspaper is "ignoring" the world of finance.


Hold up: "Ignoring" one large industry was YOUR word-choice, not mine.

If you think it's too absolutist or hyperbolic, then why did you use it earlier to refer to household brand names in technology?




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