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[quote=Anonymous][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]
I agree that all this is happening.

I think that most people are not aware of the desire they have to be oligarchs. They see them as smart and successful. They admire smart and successful people and think they can learn from their example or get some mojo of their own just from admiring these guys. Tech people have been lauded and praised since the 1990s. People see them as thought leaders and listen to their ideas--many are part of our daily lexicon in business and general life. I think also they'd say that the oligarchy they propose can't happen or that they meant something else by it.

There are also people who DO agree.They think they'll be part of this group and think they're somehow similar--like if you're an upper middle class type you'll bevome part of this ruling class. They see themselves as rulers too.

And plenty of people have a desire to follow or even to act masochistically toward their leaders so it appeals to this darker side of humanity.[/quote]

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