Sherri Nichols
Aral Balkan
Daniël Franke 🏳️🌈@aral Why did you say cancer twice, seems redundant.
Kristoffer 🍄@aral It is hilarious, beyond parody, that his first recommendation for further reading is "BasedJeffBezos" and that his intellectual hero is a co-author of the original fascist manifesto. Unbelievable.
Josh@aral I described it as bacteria. 🦠
Rikard 🇺🇦@aral Just like fossil fuels.
JP@aral well, fuck. that's an excellent metaphor.
these people really are _literally_ like cancers, including their systemic effect on society as a whole.
that's gonna sit with me for a while, ty
TahomaSoft
Grandpa Don@aral
To me the worst thing about that manifesto, which I admittedly quit reading and skimmed, is that it does accurately describe what technology has done for overall quality of life vs. the pre-civilization standard. Yes, agriculture is more productive, medicine is vastly better, yada yada.
But he then extrapolates that to "rich bastards should rule the world; fuck everyone else; we're going to the stars. Quit whining and eat your toxic food."
They are all megalomaniacs.
Not a Spring OnionYes, there is a lot of awesome and truly great technology, science and inventions.
But they are despite things like the "free market", not because of it.
Producing electricity with wind or the sun, heating buildings with heat pumps, these inventions are over a hundred years old.
But someone wanted to sell fossil fuels, therefore these inventions were ignored or actively fought against.
And the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023 was for discoveries that allowed us to create covid vaccines. In case of Katalin Karikó, despite "commercial streamlining" (and racism) of science.
Rich people didn't contribute anything. They just stole from everyone.
Óscar Morales Vivó@aral rich people will believe any random bullshit that legitimizes the source of their wealth.