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Anonymous wrote:I’ve hated Thiel since he destroyed Gawker. I do think the tide is turning on these types. Does anyone still like Musk? Or Bezos? Or Zuckerberg? They are all so unappealing, they are perfect villains.

Some really bad sh!t on Zuckerberg was just filed in federal court.

Wow anything for a buck!

I got of FB and Insta a couple of years ago because Zuck sucks. I wish every American would delete their accounts. It's destroying our society.

I deactivated my FB account but I can’t stop Insta. I never see politics on it though; it’s all dogs and fashion/decorating.

Politics is not the point. Everyone with FB and Insta accts are $$ in Zuck’s pocket. Plus, he’s using your personal data to enrich himself. He’s making $$ off of pedos contacting kids on social media. He’s making $$ on our society becoming more polarized and unhappy.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve hated Thiel since he destroyed Gawker. I do think the tide is turning on these types. Does anyone still like Musk? Or Bezos? Or Zuckerberg? They are all so unappealing, they are perfect villains.

Some really bad sh!t on Zuckerberg was just filed in federal court.

Wow anything for a buck!

I got of FB and Insta a couple of years ago because Zuck sucks. I wish every American would delete their accounts. It's destroying our society.

I deactivated my FB account but I can’t stop Insta. I never see politics on it though; it’s all dogs and fashion/decorating.

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Anonymous wrote:My personal belief is that the Silicon Valley tycoons are an existential threat to all that is good and decent in humanity. They are a profound menace.

+1 they really don't add any value to humanity. Their products don't improve life in any significant way other than play with people's vanity. They're not finding a cure for deadly diseases, improving education, saving lives, increasing literacy... they're just.... crap. And the oligarchs are rewarded for producing... crap.

Anonymous wrote:Says OP, as she shares her gripes on infrastructure created by these villainous tycoons.

I bet she orders from Amazon, has a facebook account, and lurks on X.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why I should care if someone grew up rich or upper middle class. I grew up poor; it doesn't make me more noble or give me special insight into how the world "really works." Being poor gives you a perspective, being rich gives you another perspective. Both are reflections of reality.

Good on Elon for trying to advance the world through solar, EVs, and space exploration. You don't like him because he's rich. You don't like poor people if they are white. None of this makes any sense to me.

Anonymous wrote:My personal belief is that the Silicon Valley tycoons are an existential threat to all that is good and decent in humanity. They are a profound menace.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve hated Thiel since he destroyed Gawker. I do think the tide is turning on these types. Does anyone still like Musk? Or Bezos? Or Zuckerberg? They are all so unappealing, they are perfect villains.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why I should care if someone grew up rich or upper middle class. I grew up poor; it doesn't make me more noble or give me special insight into how the world "really works." Being poor gives you a perspective, being rich gives you another perspective. Both are reflections of reality.

Good on Elon for trying to advance the world through solar, EVs, and space exploration. You don't like him because he's rich. You don't like poor people if they are white. None of this makes any sense to me.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Anonymous wrote:The PP who enumerated the shortcomings of the Democrats and the PP that made claims that some tech billionaires indeed built something out of significantly less wealth failed to address the central point of the OP, which is their influence on politics and government and overall direction of the US and global economic structure.

Taylor Swift is a billionaire. She had wealthy parents. You may or may not like her music. But we are not complaining about Taylor Swift’s wealth because she is not buying politicians, interfering with the electoral system, buying entire media platforms, and orchestrating major mergers, outsourcing/offshoring labor, circular investing into AI, and implementing mass layoffs and setting economic trends that solidify further concentration of wealth. The OP isn’t even about the existence of billionaires, but addressing the issue of half a dozen billionaires essentially manipulating the entire economy and political system.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why I should care if someone grew up rich or upper middle class. I grew up poor; it doesn't make me more noble or give me special insight into how the world "really works." Being poor gives you a perspective, being rich gives you another perspective. Both are reflections of reality.

Good on Elon for trying to advance the world through solar, EVs, and space exploration. You don't like him because he's rich. You don't like poor people if they are white. None of this makes any sense to me.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve hated Thiel since he destroyed Gawker. I do think the tide is turning on these types. Does anyone still like Musk? Or Bezos? Or Zuckerberg? They are all so unappealing, they are perfect villains.

Some really bad sh!t on Zuckerberg was just filed in federal court.

Wow anything for a buck!

I got of FB and Insta a couple of years ago because Zuck sucks. I wish every American would delete their accounts. It's destroying our society.