Even those awful men, Rockefeller, Carnegie not only paid their taxes but also used some of their philanthropy to make lives better. All tech dorks wanna do it hurt people.
That's cause the highest tax bracket when they were alive was twice what it is now. This coerced them to donate more. All our troubles start with 40 years of low highest tax bracket values compared to the previous 80
Yeah. I just saw this thread today and it rings true. Tech oligarchs have means of control their tyrant predecessors did not, and their ambitions are correspondingly more comprehensively authoritarian.
Might be good if there was another option than either of the above, though, eh? Like... 'people who believe in the continuation of complex life on earth'....
My app which replaced something my mom used to do for me proves I am a super genius who deserves to be emperor.
The thing that gets me is how historically ignorant they are. Saw one screenshot of one crowing that Musk was the first person to decide to go to treasury where money is.
They also bought immortality by doing things like “build libraries” and “fund scholarships.” Now we’re over here with “here’s a meme coin” and “but look at my algorithm-fueled plagiarism machine!” Boo.
None of them can accept the fact that their lives' work is ultimately disposable. I mean, we don't NEED anything that they've made. I know that because we didn't have it 35 years ago, and life was fine.
Bradford Parkinson, a white Air Force colonel, and Gladys West, a BLACK WOMAN mathematician who came up with the mathematic geodetic earth model for it to work right, invented it. Air Force and NASA helped implement it.
They forget how their work is based on that of others, many of them minorities.
oh gawd it's so awful. they can have hours of conversation with each other without straying near a single concrete thought, probably, it's all just optimism and building and founding and success and "first-principles thinking"
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the consequences of immiserating a population without building goodwill would have been more immediate to them.
The thing that gets me is how historically ignorant they are. Saw one screenshot of one crowing that Musk was the first person to decide to go to treasury where money is.
FFS.
the social contract is so broken.
They forget how their work is based on that of others, many of them minorities.