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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Billionaires are bad and should be taxed into oblivion #eleventysevenseven.
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1569642099359760385
Pluralistic: 13 Sep 2022 Survival of the Richest
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In 2018, Douglas Rushkoff had a bizarre experience: he was asked to speak at a billionaires' retreat, only to find that he had been summoned to help the plutes in attendance figure out how to plan for the end of the world:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity
The super-rich attendees at the conference were obsessed with "The Event" – civil unrest, environmental collapse, some other end-of-the-world scenario – and how to survive it: where to site their bunkers, how to command the loyalty of their mercenaries after money lost its value.
Rushkoff realized that these guys were obsessed with outrunning the end of the world that they were creating through their drive to outrun the end of the world. They were singularly uninterested in preventing the end of the world, or even in surviving it through solidarity and mutual aid. They were committed to the Thatcher Doctrine that "there is no such thing as society" – and they were willing to destroy society to prove that it was true
Four years later, Rushkoff has turned his experience with the wealthy, the technology-addled, and the selfish-solutionist wing of Silicon Valley into a book called Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. It's great.
https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/13/collapse-porn/#collapse-porn
bloody good read and frightening. I want to know if Rushkoff came up with any solutions.
Going to listen to this in the scratcher tonight.
https://twitter.com/ianmastersmedia/status/1569016278391848960
Might have to reassess their destinations as US tech billionaires lost 68b last night.
https://www.tipranks.com/compare-stocks/faang
let me know what it's like (and if it's depressing).
Ugh, I read that last week; it's utterly despicable. They've been holding these conferences for years.
I read somewhere else there's a booming industry for bunkers in this country.
Talk about unwanted immigrants, I'd take literally anyone else over these monsters.
heh
https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1569654738211282944
Well, if we ever wondered about how they think…. ??? Greed and Self Interest.!!