Wednesday, September 18, 2024

This week in tech messiah news


Serious "will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" vibes here.




Whenever Thiel comes up in a political discussion, I am contractually required to mention this. [Emphasis added.]

Indeed, even more pessimistically, the trend has been going the wrong way for a long time. To return to finance, the last economic depression in the United States that did not result in massive government intervention was the collapse of 1920–21. It was sharp but short, and entailed the sort of Schumpeterian “creative destruction” that could lead to a real boom. The decade that followed — the roaring 1920s — was so strong that historians have forgotten the depression that started it. The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.


I would never speak for American women, but I suspect they'll deal fairly well with Musk fanboys leaving them alone.



As the saying goes, you dance with them whut brung ya.



Variety proves more details here.








There's always a skeptic.

This is quite a thread.


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