There’s no joy in Silicon Valley these days, Menlo Ventures partner says: ‘The rich aren’t particularly happy either’

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figcaption>A rainy day in San Francisco.Instead, people are racked by a new kind of existential dread, Das said. “Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?” he wrote.

This other half has a name, too: Several users in the replies called it a “permanent underclass.”

One possible solution: Move to New York. New York City-based tech blogger Packy McCormick, responding to Das on X on Saturday, said that amid 70-degree, sunny weather in New York City, he was heading to a kite festival.

“I haven’t heard the words ‘agent’ or ‘token’ once all morning,” McCormick wrote. “Greatest city in the world.”

In the end, everything is relative. Das said that it can be easy to scoff at the “champagne problems of the valley.”

One user in the replies summed it up: “May you get everything you want quickly and with little effort,” they wrote. “An old curse.”