Elon Musk's Creepy Kids of Death are seen as the villainous minions of their evil tech lord, and rightly so. A step back for perspective can show that their youth is no coincidence: their inexperience makes them so much easier to manipulate, to recruit into the cult. Quoting Cory Doctorow: - ThreadSky

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davidrboone.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Elon Musk's Creepy Kids of Death are seen as the villainous minions of their evil tech lord, and rightly so. A step back for perspective can show that their youth is no coincidence: their inexperience makes them so much easier to manipulate, to recruit into the cult. Quoting Cory Doctorow:

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davidrboone.bsky.social•3 days ago

Safe to say, Musk's Creepy Kids regard him with awe, and that makes them uppermost and first among his victims, primed and ready to terrorize whomever he points them at. It's tempting for me to pity them, in that context, but reality admonishes us that pity would be wasted.

davidrboone.bsky.social•3 days ago

"There's a name for this tactic: the librarian Fobazi Ettarh calls it 'vocational awe'. That's where an appeal to a sense of mission and pride is used to motivate workers to work for longer hours and worse pay."

davidrboone.bsky.social•3 days ago

"Google promised them they would 'organize the world's information and make it useful.' Facebook promised them they would 'make the world more open and connected.'"

davidrboone.bsky.social•3 days ago

"Faced with a tight labor market, and the ability to turn every hour of tech worker overtime into gold, tech bosses pulled out all the stops to motivate that workforce. They appealed to workers' sense of mission, convinced them they were holy warriors, ushering in a new digital age."

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