I needed this.

"I was young enough that I also thought "Snow Crash" was a serious political document."

The political society of Snow Crash immediately gave way, in literature, to that of Diamond Age, and the Thiels and Musks of the world appear to have never read that one, or perhaps chose to ignore it.

https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/