- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmit.online
The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco::A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.
It is scary to think that people with this much money and influence can be so unhinged - inciting others to make death threats to your city leaders, then proudly tweeting afterwards “I don’t care”.
Claiming to be interested in funding schemes to solve homelessness, drug use and crime, in addition to additional police, seems kind of nefarious. What essentially boils down to arresting and manhandling individuals that have no money to their name doesn’t surprise me coming from a CEO
I pretty much agree with the article writer here:
Tech bros like Tan think they are reinventing whole systems, conjuring terms like “effective accelerationism” to describe their philosophy. But the ancient Greeks already put a name to their core ideas over 2,000 years ago. For example, there’s plutocracy, or rule by the wealthy, and autocracy, rule by dictatorship.
CEOs like this are aiming to indirectly rule/control others with their money
CEOs like this are aiming to indirectly rule/control others with their money
It breaks their little heads that they can have all this money and power, and yet still a random poor person has the legal right to say “no” to them.
They don’t understand why the state doesn’t work 100% just for them.
Such logic
He donated $100,000 to the recall campaign against District Attorney Chesa Boudin
Least surprising donation ever…