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JD Vance recalls his wife texting him under table at Silicon Valley dinner: 'These people are f---ing crazy'
By Alex Nitzberg
Published March 19, 2025
Vice President JD Vance recalled the eyebrow-raising view expressed to him by a tech CEO during a Silicon Valley dinner years ago and noted that his wife Usha texted him under the table during the event.
Vance noted that he was discussing his concern that the nation was "heading in a direction where America could no longer support middle-class families working on middle-class wages," and that even if there were sufficient "economic dynamism to provide the wealth to ensure" individuals were able to afford to purchase a home and food, and the monetary aspect of work were replaced, the purpose and dignity of work would be destroyed.
The vice president, who noted that this event had probably been in 2016 or 2017, recounted that a tech CEO at the event noted that he was not concerned about a lack of purpose when individuals lose their jobs.
Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance look on as he is nominated for the office of vice president on the first day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Vance said that when he asked the CEO what he thought would replace people's sense of purpose, the exec's answer was "digital, fully-immersive gaming."
The vice president added that his wife texted him under the table saying they had to "get the hell outta here. These people are f---ing crazy."
Vance told the story while speaking at the American Dynamism Summit on Tuesday.
During the remarks, Vance described "cheap labor" as a "crutch that inhibits innovation" and a "drug that too many American firms got addicted to."
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He said the U.S. will not "win the future by ditching child labor laws or paying our workers less than Chinese or Vietnamese laborers. We don't want that, and it's not on the table," he said.
Instead, Vance said the nation can win by both protecting workers and supporting innovators.
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