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[quote=Anonymous]You know the ilk. Elon Musk. Peter Thiel. Marc Andreesen. David Sacks. Larry and David Ellison.

Personally, I think each of them are more dangerous than Trump himself. I'd say Thiel most of all because he and his fascist whisperer, Curtis Yarvin, are behind it all whereas Musk is too ketamine addled and unstable to have a grasp on everything in the long run. these people especially Thiel are anti-democracy and anti-humanity. Their end goal is techno-feudalism in which AI replaces most jobs, but instead of a benevolent utopima where everyone gets a universal basic income and doesn't have to work, you will be basically live like feudal peasants and own nothing and live at the mercy of the tech overloards.

So that's my take, and it seems like for the most part, most people across the political spectrum do not look favorably on these oligarchs. Unfortunately, we don't have a critical mass opposing them, certainly not in the French Revolution sort of way. There is still enough of this delusion that they are the embodiment of the American dream, that they each deserve their wealth, they earned it, they are innovators and job creators etc (never mind the fact that they are doing the opposite of job creation right now). I honestly want somebody to explain this to me. Even the most hardcore libertarian capitalist shouldn't like the oligarchy, because by nature this isn't a free market, it's an anti-competitive oligopoly.

I'm center-left. Left by US standards, center-left internationally. I believe in markets, regulated markets, with essential things like healthcare to be nationalized, but with private options for expedited and high end services. But I'm not a socialist in the definition in which the state owns everything. I believe in competitive markets and especially, healthy small businesses. But the way I see it, the tech oligarchy resembles more of a state-socialist system like North Korea or the USSR, except it's not the State or the Communist Party owning everything, it's the Tech Oligarchy owning everything. They own the media, the public square, the utilities by which information is exhanged, and this is very, very dangerous. [/quote]

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