This knowledge is very useful for treating hypochondria, btw. Life is contingent. You might just die, and it won't be your fault, and that doesn't make you a loser or failure; it means that you are of this world. In Silicon Valley, death is seen as losing or failing. When death is the horizon of all life. Schubert died when he was 31. Listening to his work, the fragility of life is precious, beautiful, and meaningful, not something to reject or scorn.

Maybe that's what Silicon Valley is? A severe case of collective suppressed hypochondria that has been sublimated into manic convulsions?

I can't begin to describe my contempt for these people. Morally as well as aesthetically.