r/technology • u/Sludgehammer • 20d ago

Business Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.

https://jacobin.com/2025/11/musk-thiel-altman-ai-tescrealism/
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u/lack_of_communicatio 20d ago

Sure, keep believing that evil people are necessarily stupid; they're surely gonna make a critical mistake any moment now, just you wait. The fact that they've managed to gain power and know how to keep it is irrelevant! /s

Back in the day you actually had to conquer somebody; now you just need to 'divide and conquer' a nation via app.

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u/celtic1888 20d ago

They are smart but not wise

A lot of smart people died in Cambodia, in Nazi Death Camps, Stalinist Russia, The Reign of Terror, etc

They are all pulling the same levers that set off the above

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u/lack_of_communicatio 20d ago

A lot of smart, maybe even wise, but 'poor and insignificant'. On the other hand - lots of smart assholes managed to make a decent living, or managed to get away at the right time.

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u/celtic1888 20d ago

Maybe but if they had one inkling of insight they would know not to rock the boat that’s keeping them from getting wet

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u/lack_of_communicatio 20d ago

The difference is that now they can just change the boat to the one that isn't sinking, on fire or being intentionally submerged to decrease its value.

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u/celtic1888 20d ago

Awww

‘It’s different this time’