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The hostility of digital elites to expertise

From Jacob Silverman’s Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley loc 999:

They were smart and loyal. Silicon Valley elites tended to dismiss expertise. “Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate ‘experts’ as ‘crazy people,’” according to Marc Andreessen. That attitude provided broad rhetorical and ideological cover for tech moguls to refashion any industry in their image, from taxis to healthcare to real estate to the entire federal government. Their worldview upheld the pretense that creative destruction and technological innovation were synonymous with progress. If expertise was worthless—because the experts themselves represented the corruption of the ancien régime—then tech was a salvific force. And the people leading the tech vanguard were the ones doing the saving.

#digitalElites #ElanMusk #elites #expertise #siliconValley

EditorDavePerry Feb 23, 2025

Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week

“It is cruel and disrespectful to hundreds of thousands of veterans who are wearing their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest public service in his life”

https://sentinelcolorado.com/noapple/musk-gives-all-federal-workers-48-hours-to-explain-what-they-did-last-week/

#DOGE #ElanMusk

Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week

"It is cruel and disrespectful to hundreds of thousands of veterans who are wearing their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest public service in his life"

Sentinel Colorado

TheAuroraSentinel Feb 23, 2025

Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week

“It is cruel and disrespectful to hundreds of thousands of veterans who are wearing their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest public service in his life”

https://sentinelcolorado.com/noapple/musk-gives-all-federal-workers-48-hours-to-explain-what-they-did-last-week/

#DOGE #ElanMusk

Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week

"It is cruel and disrespectful to hundreds of thousands of veterans who are wearing their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their job duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest public service in his life"

Sentinel Colorado

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linuxer Jul 17, 2023

@MartinSonneborn

Warum so umständlich? Die #EU sollte sich Fachkräfte wie #zuckerberg, oder #ElanMusk kaufen, äh ich meinte natürlich, die kaufen sich die #EU.

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Emillerphx Dec 16, 2022

@politicalwire I was in the same boat. I saw #ElanMusk transform tech in amazing ways. At a price, but transformative. But with Twitter he embraced his inner petulant child. But instead of revolutionizing technology, he could destroy democracy.