Look at these poor, delicate little visionaries. Tech billionaires have reportedly retained an expensive phalanx of high-priced Democratic lobbyists and fixers to fast-track their secretive plan to build a pristine, utopian startup city from scratch in Northern California [1.5.1]. Meanwhile, down here in Todos Santos, the swell is double overhead, the Pacific is glassy, and local fishermen care about as much about a billionaire's housing subdivision as a sea turtle cares about a pitch deck. Keep spending that monopoly money, boys—the waves are firing and nobody on this coast is answering your LinkedIn messages.