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

"When France's right-wing political parties ran strongly in a June 2024 election, Jacob Helberg, the Palantir advisor who'd emerged as an influential hawkish voice against China and TikTok, asked why Marine Le Pen's (NR) party was considered right-wing. This was the party that was forced to expel its founder --...Jean-Marie Le Pen -- for his racism and dismissal of the Holocaust as a "detail of history."

"They've kind of reached a point where they have so much wealth, and so much egomania--and, in some cases, so much drug-addled thinking--that they decide they're going to rule the world, and that democracy is an outdated form of software," Duran said. I mean, why would they want democracy when they think they are the shit? I am pretty sure they want "central planning" as long as they are in control.

"Srinivasan speculated about who must be finding a freelance journalist who had the temerity to question the political program being promoted by powerful tech leaders...There was little money in this kind of work, only the satisfaction of uncovering information that powerful people didn't want the public to know. And maybe pricking their egos in the process."

The Network State.
"Drawing on the anti-state and corporate charter city ideas then coming into vogue, the Network State described a potential "tech Zionism" in which right-wing techies ("Grays") would buy property, take over local institutions, and cleanse neighborhoods of their ideological opponents ("Blues"). Grays were generally intellectual tech elites who would reap the fruits of technological progress."

Why do these guys hate homelessness? Isn't it a symptom that capitalism is successfully creating the wealth inequality that's supposedly necessary for the benefit of society as a whole?

What they want people to do.
Have multiple children
Stay healthy
Go to church or do community stuff
Be financially responsible
But spend enough for the economy to grow

While working as many hours as they can.
lol.

"[Sacks and his fellow travelers] were angry, they wanted the government to work for them again, while simultaneously seeing it as incapable of doing much good." pg.69