• Haagel@lemmings.world
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    5 months ago

    Here’s an example of a corporation demonstrating positive socio-economic change:

    The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses.

    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.

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    5 months ago

    Pretty sure I read this book a few years ago. It was called Jennifer government.

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      5 months ago

      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!

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    5 months 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.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.

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    5 months ago

    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.

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    5 months ago

    “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

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    5 months ago

    It’s funny because he thinks that his status as a “gray” would protect him from the “reds.” just another useful idiot for fascism.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    America desperately needs to enact policies that put restrictions on wealth accumulation. There are lots of ways to do this.