Attending to UC Berkeley seems to take most kids remotely interested in computers and somehow radicalizes them makes them all want to be founders and #build and "invest in their best friends" and this cannot possibly be a good thing.

There are most definitely kids who will make great founders, perhaps even fair to say there are some kids who are equipped to found a company at 22 years old at Berkeley. But to have this be the overwhelming and central cultural dogma, and have this vortex suck all creativity out of everyone and flatten all their personalities to that of a mediocre seed stage SaaS founder, feels almost criminal.