It's crazy that it seems like we're just going in loops every decade or so. New people enter tech, mostly focus on their own stuff, after a while, it becomes very clear how "deeply intertwined US companies and the US government are", and these people now lose their trust. Eventually, things been going well for some years, so new people enter the industry, with the same naive outlook, thinking "This couldn't be true of the government we have today" yet eventually, even they realize what's going on. Rinse and repeat every last 3 decades, and that's just what I remember, I'm sure others remember even further.