cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14962209
cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/1421688
Billionaire proposes governance system of corporate feudal fascism
Perfect summary 10/10
After reading, the gist of it seems to be:
- Vanilla far-right indoctrinated dumbo (his vision: “Reds” welcome, “Blues” not, “Anti-Blue Propaganda” on public view screens)
- Wants exploitative capitalism on steroids with companies controlling everyone’s lives completely
- Claims current capitalism is only bad because it’s “woke capitalism” which he claims the “ruling class” is pushing
- Wants tech bros to butter up police and give security staff jobs to their children as a favor, i.e. intentional social classism
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In short, just another out of touch entrepreneur who sells snake oil cures to people suffering in the current system, so that they may invite in the boot that stomps them down for good.
This is one of the more disturbing things I’ve read in a while, and there’s a genocide going on.
It strikes me that this guy and his followers simply never grew up, because they didn’t have to. Instead of being faced with everyday challenges like the rest of us, their money could insulate them from any degree of hardship or friction. When you live a life where literally everything can be solved with your money, and you’re pretty much guaranteed to never run out of it, there’s no motivation for you to empathize with or even understand other people’s points of view, and thus this scary techno-authoritarianism is born.
These are the people who will prevent us from making any socioeconomic progress. They actually want us all to wear colored shirts and be discriminated against based on our color. Their dystopian vision is genuinely the stuff of my nightmares.
It’s comical imo compared to the actually dangerous religious fascism that’s currently threatening our democracy. Aww, litte baby tech bro wants to do a fascism, how cute.
These tech bros are not going to win over cops. It’s a ridiculous fantasy.
Tech bros are just gross. This is a particularly gross one.
Oh look, it’s just fascism again.
Why is it that when these whackos start describing their fascist plans for society, there are people who respond like it’s a groundbreaking concept, some bold new vision of the future? None of this is new, it’s the same old tired goosestepping shit.
It’s not facism if no one’s allowed to call it that!
There have been fascist psychopaths arround as long as humans exist. BUT: when a fascist psychopath gets support among important figures of the industrial and financial sector, that is when you should start to panic.
There have been fascist psychopaths arround as long as humans exist.
Well yeah, that’s kind of my point. Why does anyone hear this shit and respond like it’s something new?
I am not contradicting you, but added my thoughts to your argument. I just started this by summarizing the parts of your argument to which I wanted to add.
Old tired goosestepping shit was called a groundbreaking concept too.
There are mechanisms in human societies where being part of a pack is advantageous. Which is why that shit, openly or not, reemerges all the time.
Being part of a pack even feels right - because that’s what human instincts tell you, that you are stronger and better this way. That emotion makes one feel anything fascist as groundbreaking, young, new, strong, and at the same time “not degenerate” and healthy.
Actually the other way around, fascism aimed for that feeling from the very beginning, that’s its core.
By the beard, this is some next-level shit. Imagine listening to his jibber-jabber about Grays and thinking “that sounds like a good idea”?
This new “ruling CEO” class is bloody dangerous.
The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator
Starting to get why everyone else in the Bay area hates the tech people
the burgeoise is not new, they just seem to be getting more sheltered and stupid.
This new “ruling CEO” class is bloody dangerous.
Definitely!
“Ethnically cleanse,” he said at one point, summing up his idea for a city purged of Blues (this, he says, will prevent Blues from ethnically cleansing the Grays first).
Conservatives are incredibly fucked up. They can’t fathom coexisting with people who aren’t like them without wanting to “ethnically cleanse” them, so they naturally assume everybody else thinks like this as well
Grey suits. Where have I seen that before?🤔
The techno-authoritarian Curtis Yarvin-type crowd have been around for a while. We can laugh them off or ignore them, but their biggest believers are billionaire man-children in the Valley and that will undoubtedly come to bear fruit in horrific ways.
This guy sounds like he snorted every 60s-70s sci fi at once and now his goal in life is creating the torment nexus. I had no idea that the CEO of Y Combinator(hacker news?) had “friends” like this?
Yeah, I like to read Hacker news from time to time. Since reading this article I will surely remember that friendship.
Tan himself is pretty unhinged too
So disturbing. How did we get here?
Reforming capitalism doesn’t prevent end stage, it only delays it.
Here’s an example of a corporation demonstrating positive socio-economic change:
I grew up in Silicon Valley and I can testify what you already know: venture capitalists and tech CEOs are just dumb kids with a lot of money. Many of them landed in their positions by chance alone. We are not obliged to give them more credence than anybody else.
That’s inspiring, thanks.
Wtf did I just read
Yet another reason the working class must never disarm.
The quotes in this article were some of the weirdest fucking things I’ve ever read. Is there something in the water in SF?
Privilege and money. When you are that rich you aren’t really connected to people and humanity as a whole. No one tells you that what you’re proposing is fucking insane and awful. Notice most of San Franciscoans aren’t calling for stupid shit; they’re just struggling to survive.
Tech bros are gross caricatures of real people. Imagine 35 years of social ineptitude plus billions of dollars.
The good news is they don’t have any real power, they just have power fantasies.
There’s something in the water. The air. The food. It’s lead. Microplastics. Carbon monoxide. “Forever Chemicals.” And void knows what else.
It’s poisoning the brains of people everywhere.
Sources and Toxicity of Mercury in the San Francisco Bay Area, Spanning California and Beyond:
I’ve read history, I know what pure unadulterated humanity is like.
Getting our bodies clean (while important) won’t cleanse our poisoned minds.
Oh for certain. Humanity is a pox upon this planet. Hopefully mother Earth solves the problem.
This reads like someone played The Outer Worlds and was like… “You know what?”
Fucking Spacer’s Choice.
Silicon Valley needs unions yesterday. Curbing these bros’ enthusiasm via the ballot box alone would be very difficult given the amount of money they can deploy onto politicians. Without workers, they can’t do anything.