ted (not lasso)
@ted
why do we (society) obsess over and often hate tech billionaires but don’t bat an eye at music billionaires (taylor swift, jay Z), sports billionaires (magic johnson, lebron), or entertainment billionaires (george lucas, tyler perry)?
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Poison Ivy
@ivy
Taylor swift, jay z, magic johnson, Lebron, George Lucas, and Tyler perry aren’t trying to reform society in their own images and don’t use phrases like ‘woke mind virus’
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
i think only one tech billionaire uses the phrase ‘woke mind virus’, and this cast isn’t about him specifically but about successful tech entrepreneurs generally. is this how you feel about all tech billionaires? if yes, i’m surprised. i would’ve expected something more sociologically nuanced and insightful
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Poison Ivy
@ivy
Elon is the most direct, but Peter thiel, balaji, Garry tan have expressed similar sentiments, one of the entire premises behind network states is that parallel institutions are needed because present ones are woke-captured Without litigating those sentiments, tech billionaires are equally obsessed with society
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@ted
okay so they’re hated because they want to disrupt existing institutions and are obsessed with society in a way that all other billionaires aren’t? that’s fair. @rish makes a similar compelling point https://warpcast.com/rish/0x63254e4c
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Poison Ivy
@ivy
some journalists hate Peter thiel because he funded the lawsuit that killed gawker, SF leftists hate Garry tan et al because of the changes they’re making in local government, some trans ppl hate Elon because of his role in making twitter an increasingly toxic place for lgbtq+ ppl
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