Just like Salvador Dali says I basically used New York City to train my retina. He calls this the historical retina. Historical retina is very important.
In Silicon Valley, I was able to train my retina first on the best of commercial work, work with really great people, and second, I made some money, so I was able to visit the greatest museums in the world in person.
I think the biggest mistake tech people make is that they don't see much art, and they don't understand art which is terrible. Art can only be done in person, the screen is not the way to consume art.
Music, just like Salvador Dali says, is not really the greatest art because it doesn't employ the greatest organ, which is the eye. Music is an inferior art.
Throughout history, influential people understood art very well, they used art and architecture as part of their influence and understanding of the world.
Tech people try to understand machines. They do not concern themselves much with 1. Art and 2. The public good. Which I think are quite related.
Some very talented business people promise a future of abundance but we already have abundance because we are the richest country in the world. You go to New York City and see all the empty real estate and all the empty stores and then you go and see all the terrible homeless shelters where more than 100,000 children suffer being homeless. I don't see a reason why we can't reconcile the fact that we're the richest ever and the fact that more than ever, there are people who need help.
Of course, just like Martin Luther King Jr. viewed employment as a fundamental right and a cornerstone of human dignity, social justice means jobs. There will never be social justice without enough jobs, and this is what the politicians get wrong.
Politicians always just want to get elected so they think that social justice means more politics. In America, on top of that, we have campaign financing which is directly like a market economy for politicians. They only have an incentive and are beholden to the money.
Politicians have never been about the good of society. I think we should abolish politicians and strive for absolute and direct democracy. I think Athenian democracy should be the way we govern ourselves, of course, sans the slavery.
I think any average American will be able to perform any government job just as well as any other. So I really like the idea of not electing or appointing public servants but letting random people serve. In that way, we will avoid people getting entrenched in public service.