Interesting side effect of the H1B convo: More are questioning how much real value all these SaaS products create. Seeing a lot of "Oh, you made another box-checking productivity app? So what?" Feels like tech-skepticism from the Right is finally going mainstream.

Stuff like "Splungo: The AI assistant that unearths actionable insights from your data" (bought by Microsoft for $500M, division wound down after 2 years -- your company spent six months integrating it and training employees). It's a lot harder to see the value of something like Splungo when you feel like you've had to sacrifice your community, way of life, security/etc. to have it.

Could this sentiment could reach a tipping point and hurt techbro prestige long term? If "SaaS" becomes a shorthand for "financial instrument for extracting American wealth"? 

But Silicon Valley *generates* so much wealth! It creates so many jobs! Does it? Do they? For whom?