"These men — and, yes, they are mostly men — are using the vast wealth they hoarded in recent years to turn the world on its head all so they can increase their power over the rest of us and make even more money in the process."
One of the (many) problems is there used to be laws. I’m not saying that Steve Jobs never did anything shady, but there was “a line” that one didn’t cross. There’s no line anymore. Abhorrent people like Thiel, Zuckerberg, Altman, and Karp have no morals and are leeches. Unfortunately, most of the people in my government are too.
To quote a well-known graphic novel: “Who watches the watchers?” There’s another quote about the fish rotting from the head on down. A dying empire is not a pretty thing and these people, both in business and government, are just symptoms of a larger rot. I’m old enough to remember the fall of the Soviet Union. Most people didn’t believe that was even possible, and they did a lot of damage on the way down.
Yes, we have to deal with the Thiels and the Karps, and their opposite numbers in government, but we also have to deal with the underlying problems that produced them, and a huge one is inequality.
While Wikipedia has remained great, Fandom (previously Wikia)—which share a co-founder with Wikipedia in Jimmy Wales—has sunk into complete garbage. Mossbag has a good video on this: https://youtu.be/qcfuA_UAz3I?si=RhCn7rGGxEio1fjf.
"These men — and, yes, they are mostly men — are using the vast wealth they hoarded in recent years to turn the world on its head all so they can increase their power over the rest of us and make even more money in the process."
They also want to advance their TESCREAL project.
One of the (many) problems is there used to be laws. I’m not saying that Steve Jobs never did anything shady, but there was “a line” that one didn’t cross. There’s no line anymore. Abhorrent people like Thiel, Zuckerberg, Altman, and Karp have no morals and are leeches. Unfortunately, most of the people in my government are too.
To quote a well-known graphic novel: “Who watches the watchers?” There’s another quote about the fish rotting from the head on down. A dying empire is not a pretty thing and these people, both in business and government, are just symptoms of a larger rot. I’m old enough to remember the fall of the Soviet Union. Most people didn’t believe that was even possible, and they did a lot of damage on the way down.
Yes, we have to deal with the Thiels and the Karps, and their opposite numbers in government, but we also have to deal with the underlying problems that produced them, and a huge one is inequality.
While Wikipedia has remained great, Fandom (previously Wikia)—which share a co-founder with Wikipedia in Jimmy Wales—has sunk into complete garbage. Mossbag has a good video on this: https://youtu.be/qcfuA_UAz3I?si=RhCn7rGGxEio1fjf.