The disconnect between the ivory rocket ship of Silicon Valley and the rest of the country has never seemed more profound.
At one end of the economy, things look historic, unprecedented, platinum-plated. Last week, Elon Musk’s SpaceX went public in the largest initial stock offering in U.S. history, raking in more than $85 billion, turning even the company’s cafeteria workers and welders into millionaires and Musk into the world’s first trillionaire.
