Warum Tech -Milliardäre eine Unternehmensdiktatur wollen
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/707010/gil-duran-the-nerd-reich-tech-billionaires-authoritarianism-dictator
Warum Tech -Milliardäre eine Unternehmensdiktatur wollen
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/707010/gil-duran-the-nerd-reich-tech-billionaires-authoritarianism-dictator
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The “Nerd Reich,” as Gil sees it, is a web of powerful, ultrawealthy tech billionaires. People like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, and others, whose politics and influence now see them pushing the country further and further away from democracy and toward something resembling a kind of cross between unrestrained capitalism and monarchy.
This idea has been kicking around for quite a while now. You’ll hear Gil refer to it as the Dark Enlightenment, or as some refer to it, the neo-reactionary movement. Some central characters here include Curtis Yarvin — an influential, anti-democracy blogger whose ideas once stood far outside mainstream acceptability, but who recently has captured the attention of politicians like Vice President JD Vance.
And that’s Gil’s central thesis: while these ideas are not new, their embrace by some of the wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet is a relatively recent phenomenon — one that’s been supercharged by President Donald Trump’s reelection.
Now that these ideas have entered the White House by way of the MAGA movement, Gil argues that it has created a dangerous coalition between the far right and the stewards of the biggest, most popular tech platforms and products. After all, as we’ve seen with Elon Musk and DOGE, these tech billionaires aren’t just sitting in the shadows; they want to tear down and rebuild the government from the ground up.
When I studied such things there was the concept of “anarcho-capitalism,” which was largely viewed as a worst-case scenario. I fear that we’ve arrived there, with the added horror of a religious cult aspect thrown in for good measure.
Cause they are already rich techbros who can dictate terms and pull the ladders back up after them. Hell, I would want a dictatorship if i was the guy in charge. Its good to be the king.
Seems like people would let Internet corporations take over democracy before y’all considered bringing democracy to the Internet corporations
This is a great discussion that isn’t solely on the topic, but covers it quite well: https://youtu.be/SiBJeLrIoes?si=xYxxJW1xikS3jyog
This is nothing new. Shortly before and during the „gilded age“ (when robber barons like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgen, and Vanderbilt amassed unheard-of wealth at the expense of everyone else) companies used to have their own towns with their own corporation laws, and they paid workers with company money that wasn’t worth anything anywhere else. Amazon and Facebook are already trying to bring this back into vogue, and the rest of the „tech billionaires“ are all for it, too.
Repussicans like Trump are doing everything they can to bring back corporate dictatorship.
Is the answer: because it gives them power? Because I’m pretty sure that’s the answer behind everyone who wants some form of autocratic rule. No one raises their hand votes for someone else or some other party to be the dictator. Always their group.
How do libertarians and market fundamentalists reconcile with this fact that corporations want dictatorship?