113 points

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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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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89 points

By the beard, this is some next-level shit. Imagine listening to his jibber-jabber about Grays and thinking “that sounds like a good idea”?

This new “ruling CEO” class is bloody dangerous.

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33 points

This new “ruling CEO” class is bloody dangerous.

Definitely!

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18 points

The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator

Starting to get why everyone else in the Bay area hates the tech people

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7 points

the burgeoise is not new, they just seem to be getting more sheltered and stupid.

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75 points

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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17 points

That’s inspiring, thanks.

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60 points

This reads like someone played The Outer Worlds and was like… “You know what?”

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26 points

Fucking Spacer’s Choice.

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2 points

Great summary lmao

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56 points

Oh look, it’s just fascism again.

Why is it that when these whackos start describing their fascist plans for society, there are people who respond like it’s a groundbreaking concept, some bold new vision of the future? None of this is new, it’s the same old tired goosestepping shit.

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19 points

There have been fascist psychopaths arround as long as humans exist. BUT: when a fascist psychopath gets support among important figures of the industrial and financial sector, that is when you should start to panic.

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There have been fascist psychopaths arround as long as humans exist.

Well yeah, that’s kind of my point. Why does anyone hear this shit and respond like it’s something new?

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I am not contradicting you, but added my thoughts to your argument. I just started this by summarizing the parts of your argument to which I wanted to add.

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16 points

It’s not facism if no one’s allowed to call it that!

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Old tired goosestepping shit was called a groundbreaking concept too.

There are mechanisms in human societies where being part of a pack is advantageous. Which is why that shit, openly or not, reemerges all the time.

Being part of a pack even feels right - because that’s what human instincts tell you, that you are stronger and better this way. That emotion makes one feel anything fascist as groundbreaking, young, new, strong, and at the same time “not degenerate” and healthy.

Actually the other way around, fascism aimed for that feeling from the very beginning, that’s its core.

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