"Ich vermute, dass die meisten Mitarbeiter in der Tech -Branche weiterhin daran interessiert sind, gute Produkte aufzubauen, nicht am Demokratie zu stürzen oder a zu erreichen dunkle Erleuchtung. Ein Bottom-up-Widerstand würde von Ingenieuren und Gründern kommen, die die Politik nicht mögen und wieder zu den Bauen von Tools zurückkehren möchten, die Menschen helfen."
https://archive.ph/aud3o
10 Kommentare
The problem, as always, seems to be billionaires, the business people, and the belief that growth is infinite.
“This might be a problem”, said the frog that was already boiling in water.
The time to be concerned was before the election, now the options are severely limited to nonexistent.
The influence is already massive… It is clear that tech studies massively neglected to also teach ethics…
Submission Statement: Mr. Andreessen has become the evangelist of techno-optimism, a philosophy [described](https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-marc-andreessen-techno-billionaire-wrong-techno-optimism/) by the Wired columnist Steve Levy as “an over-the-top declaration of humanity’s destiny as a tech-empowered superspecies.” Like characters in an Ayn Rand novel, Mr. Musk, Mr. Thiel and Mr. Andreessen may believe that they have torn off the blinders of convention to seize the greatness they deserve. But their approach may actually weaken Silicon Valley in the long term. The industry’s embrace of government power and money threatens what has made it an engine of innovation and a magnet for creative talent.
You act like they weren’t there already… politics had been caught red handed manipulating social media for a long time as admitted by Zuckerberg. Now you just don’t like the politics of who’s running the show.
Kinda late to the party. Tech companies from Silicon Valley are influencing everything from genocides to squashing union organizing- around the world, not just the US.
Actually, it appears to me that the SV Muskrats have abandoned libertarianism for the corporate-welfare state:
* Propping up weak cryptocurrencies
* free sales events at the White House
*, closing public services that ‘compete’ with their government-subsidized operations (like SpaceX).
We all know that unchecked power will be abused. This is a fact of human nature that our entire system of government is explicitly structured around preventing. So isn’t it strange that the entire liberal political class, media, intellectuals — well meaning, otherwise intelligent — seem to simply forget this when it comes to private individuals or corporations? This is the power of capital to command people’s minds.
What?? The influence hasn’t really grown; it’s just become more visible. The only difference now is that you’re seeing it more clearly. Let’s not pretend that both parties haven’t massively benefited from the deep pockets of the tech bros. The Democratic Party has taken more money over the years; it’s just that the tech bros now see it’s more financially beneficial to align themselves with the Republicans. But don’t delude yourself into thinking that this is somehow a Republican thing. They bet on both horses, and sometimes, they favor one horse more than the other.
The amount of money poured into campaigns and PACs by corporations:
[https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/all-profiles](https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/all-profiles)
This might explain why Boeing (despite their current track record) was granted the F47 contract over long-standing contender Lockheed Martin:
[https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/boeing-keeps-giving-big-money-to-lawmakers-who-voted-to-overturn-the-election-after-amazon-microsoft-stopped/](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/boeing-keeps-giving-big-money-to-lawmakers-who-voted-to-overturn-the-election-after-amazon-microsoft-stopped/)
[https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2022/11/02/largest-defense-firms-donate-millions-to-election-denying-lawmakers/](https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2022/11/02/largest-defense-firms-donate-millions-to-election-denying-lawmakers/)