As it turned out, it was capitalism after all. If I had to pick the moment when it all went off the rails for the tech industry, I’d choose Saturday morning, December 10, 2016, when I was at a farmers market considering some epic Meyer lemons with my oldest son, who liked to cook.

It was there in the San Francisco sunshine as the fog burned away up the hill in Noe Valley that I got a tip: the crowned heads of Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech companies had been summoned to tromp into Manhattan’s Trump Tower and meet the man who had unexpectedly just been elected president and was the antithesis of all they supposedly represented.