Status Updates From Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and ...

Isn't woke just being accepting and tolerant of different groups and beliefs? I don't understand why that's so bad.

Hey Mr. Rabois, go fuck yourself.
And why do you live? This is not a philosophical question. lol

pg.62

Chapter 6 ends on a cliffhanger and a clear narrative emerges. in that order I think. I felt the cliffhanger and then acknowledged the narrative. But experience and confirm it yourself.
It seems like the author has been building this point from the previous chapters that discuss the Silicon Valley billionaires, Musk, Twitter and Saudi authorities.

A chapter or two a week is all the bad news from him that I can stand. Silverman is a brilliant, brave journo. He is, ultimately, writing in the vein of political economy, I think.

"The free-speech absolutist said nothing about Saudi Arabia's abuse of his platform. Perhaps he was simply unaware." pg. 56

"In the years since Dorsey and MBS shook hands, little changed. Twitter's management never took public responsibility for the spying or for the outrageous fact that one of its biggest outside investors regularly arrested people who posted even mildly political remarks on the platform." pg. 55

They made in June 2016.

"Independent media didn't exist in Saudi Arabia, so it was important for the regime to be able to properly police and manipulate new social-media platforms like Twitter. The Saudi gov. established cubicle farms full of paid pro-regime trolls, who threatened dissents, spread nationalist propaganda, and tried to game trending to pics to emphasize gov. friendly stories (and suppress critical stories and hashtags.)"pg.51

"In full public view, it seemed to many observers as though Musk was being radicalized by the online right, being baptized into their ranks. And some of his friends and peers followed. On X, they engaged with the same Nazis and boutique far-right subcultures--misogynist gamers, ultra-libertarian techies, and incel-worshipping Groypers (a subgroup of white-nationalists internet trolls led by Nick Fuentes)." pg.43

"There are many other revealing anecdotes one could cite--demonizing migrants, amplifying far-right ideologues, happily engaging with Nazi accounts...He restored many once-banned accounts, including those belonging to "Groyper" leader Nick Fuentes, whose followers littered their feeds with content denigrating Jews and women and glorifying Adolf Hitler." pg. 39-40.

"[Silicon Valley elites'] worldview upheld the pretense that creative destruction and technological innovation were synonymous with progress. If expertise were worthless--because the experts themselves represented the corruption of the ancien régime--then tech was salvific force. And the people leading the tech vanguard were the ones doing the saving." pg. 37

"If billionaires weren't elites, or if managers and stewards of capital weren't much different from you and me, then real power distinctions wouldn't exist." pg. 30

"A general lack of class consciousness meant that some still subscribed to the fiction that a tech billionaire could be a populist threat to the establishment, just as Trump supposedly was." pg. 30-31

"Andreessen didn't consider that the archetype he most despised--unelected technocrats remaking the world in their image from a luxurious hilltop redoubt--might have been an accurate description of Silicon Valley venture capitalists." pg.27

"The billionaire CEO who didn't like "a lords and peasants kind of thing" gave himself the title of Tesla's Technoking and fought for a $50 billion-plus pay package. Tesla fought unionization efforts at factories in California and New York. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) charged that the company used illegal union-busting tactics. Its relationships with European unions were similarly adversarial." pg.25

"these men had acquired their tremendous wealth precisely because they put their monetary interests and will to power at the forefront of every pursuit."

These guys have a problem because listening to a friend tell you about the anime you missed and its random facts on a vacation before going to bed is much more satisfying than making more money. Assuming you are not in deep financial trouble and somewhat stable.

"[The billionaires] will sell the venture to the public under the mantle of charity, civic progress, or as Musk called it, "extending the light of consciousness" to the red planet" pg.24