Perhaps we should view Las Vegas as Erving Goffman saw it, as a last resort for unfulfilled demand for risk that might once have been channeled elsewhere. The poker room might not be the most productive outlet for the River’s energies, but at least your downside there is limited to the table stakes. Silicon Valley’s inventions are more of a gamble for all of us, however. My concern, as I observed at the beginning of our tour, is that our risk preferences have become bifurcated. Instead of a bell curve of risk-taking where most people are somewhere toward the middle, you have Musk at one
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