cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14962209
cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/1421688
This reads like someone played The Outer Worlds and was like… “You know what?”
Great summary lmao
Fucking Spacer’s Choice.
SF has all the earmarks of a dystopian future - I say let him try. it’ll fail, and hard - and then people will know that like communism, it just doesnt work.
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.
Pretty sure I read this book a few years ago. It was called Jennifer government.
Damn, haven’t thought about that book for many years.
The concept behind the story seems a lot less fictional/unlikely than it used to 20yrs ago!
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.
This is pretty unhinged but I do kinda get a giggle imagining him and several other losers walking around in their grey Elon Musk shirts.
Well, their gray musk shirts—or maybe their gray “bitcoin” shirts. Super cool.
Capitalist brain rot is fuckin strong with . He’s gone straight up fuckin out of his mind on capitalism. ODing on it.
Wtf did I just read
Yet another reason the working class must never disarm.
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.
Billionaire proposes governance system of corporate feudal fascism
Perfect summary 10/10
So disturbing. How did we get here?
Reforming capitalism doesn’t prevent end stage, it only delays it.
“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
It’s funny because he thinks that his status as a “gray” would protect him from the “reds.” just another useful idiot for fascism.
Lmao, what a moron
Counter-offer: no.
I’m not a SF native, but from my understanding, the problem with SF is the NIMBYs, and this takes NIMBY to the extreme.
Whats a nimby? Tiny nibblers?
America desperately needs to enact policies that put restrictions on wealth accumulation. There are lots of ways to do this.