Silicon Valley’s worldview is not just an ideology; it’s a personality disorder. | Crooked Timber ( crookedtimber.org )

AllonzeeLV , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

This person is calling our rigged market capitalism silicon valley for some reason.

Silicon valley is just another symptom of letting our oligarchs run the table unopposed. Just another place to spread the sanctioned insatiable greed tumor the Ronald Reagans and Jack Welches let loose half a century ago in the name of cannibalizing society for short term profit.

If you wanted to attack something, attack the markets they trade on, run by shareholders that demand maximum short term profit at literally any and all societal expense. We won’t do shit to anyone mind you, they’re in charge, but I have just as much disdain for Warren Buffett as I do for Mark Zuckerberg.

All billionaires and triple digit millionaires are socially destructive, exploiting workers, buying their own regulators, and robbing commons, the coast they live on and whether they wear shiny shoes or sandals and socks as they inflict cruelty on their fellow man for moooooooore profit is irrelevant.

davel , 7 months ago

More & more lately I think I should have just started my readings with Marx & Engels & Lenin instead of the Mark Fishers & Malcolm Harrises.