I vote whoever decided to hold the vote on Google Forms.
Why is this even a contest? We all know who the “winner” is going to be.
I don’t. Bezos and Musk are both terrible, even if I would say Bezos is worse. For just tech it would probably be Musk? But who knows, Altman and his shenanigans are also a frontrunner for me.
Just tech, clearly Musk. I’d argue Peter Thiel is the worst among the others for direct political influence, but that wasn’t the question and name recognition is everything.
I just know Thiel as an influence for major tech companies, and some of his opinions on eg monopolies. Outside of those companies I don’t know any example of political influence. Do you have some?
Undoubtedly going to be Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos
I think Thiel is worse for the world. Elon musk is more show and shine - and crumbles spectacular anyway
If the test is “how much better the world of 2023 would be if someone went back in time and murdered their father before they were born” it’d be either Thiel or Bezos. Probably Bezos.
If the test is “this guy just makes my skin crawl” then it’d have to be Altman.
I gotta admit I can’t really be too angry at Elon. He fills me with too much joy. Every time one of his rockets blows up and his little army of sycophant morons cheer, it just is such a great time I can’t even. He’s just a funny man. Like he’s a clown like he’s here to amuse me. How can anyone not like that?
Elon shouldn’t be in this chart, too easy to win, makes the championship not interesting.
Like if Vegeta super Saiyan participates in an high school karate tournament
Elon shouldn’t be in this chart, too easy to win
One would think, but with both Thiel and Bezos in the competition this isn’t as cut-and-dry as you’d assume. Thiel especially is fucking evil, he’s way worse than Musk
@Moonrise2473 @sirdorius Well, Elon is evil by accident. Peter Thiel is evil by intention.
@zepfhyr Elon is a person that is very susceptible for conspiracies that fit his world view and he propagates it loudly. Peter Thiel always stays in the background and acts from there.
But thats just because he is the most well known (and most annoying). If you were to look at the things they have actually done, bezos and Thiel are probably much worse
It is difficult to quanitify the damage Musk has done lately. It isn’t so clear cut as paying for sweatshop labour or stripping employment rights but he has done a great deal of difficult to define social or cultural harm by empowering fascists and using his public image to endorse fringe conspiracy theories
“After losing to Peter Thiel in last year’s contest, Elon Musk takes the title of WORST PERSON IN TECH 2023!” – With the vote split 84.1/15.9% over Jeff Bezos, and to no great surprise (except perhaps the margin). https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/111598332906577952
