That’s a blatant lie, or more generously, harmfully ignorant perspective.
Academics, thinkers, have been warning about private power eroding public for decades.
Oh sure SV specifically is new NOW, but they haven’t done anything Walmart didn’t do to little communities decades before, or ATT hasn’t done; co-opt control of public government for private gain.
I’m done with this community. It’s a bunch of ostriches who are equivocating their failures as political agents; don’t login. They lose their power.
Stop living in the bespoke simulation in your head.
Twitter is a private organization that owns the physical infrastructure it’s managing.
When did we switch from capitalism to socialism? You own their infra and agency now?
The slippery slope is every pleb thinking they’re David going against Goliath. Really you’re all just berating and competing with your neighbors. Turning them into ephemeral ideas all living behind a blue bird logo.
The masses cheered this all on ignoring the political reality they exist in. The chemical bath washing through your brain isn’t the same as others.
You’re right I forgot communication didn’t exist before Twitter and iPhones. How silly of me.
God said let their be Steve Jobs and suddenly human communication…
Privately owned infrastructure was never for you. It’s for the elites to corral you all along.
Believing Twitter was ever on your side was your first mistake. They were Walmart; moved in with low prices now they’re raising them.
It’s an emotional con to keep you focused on a political narrative (American dream of free enterprise; for some, toil for depreciated wages for the majority) and not exploring alternative communication pipelines.
How free is our speech if it’s constrained to Wall Street, tech companies, SV, and DC? You walked right into constrained speech in order to fit in.
Or you’re existing under a chemical delusion that two different things are occurring.
It’s humans who don’t want to perpetuate other humans speech.
I’m not going to live in your unscientific epistemology about nation states being worse than corporations; both enabled by humans. It’s all just humans.
I don’t have to important other flimsy humans who aren’t of godly abilities. Tailoring my speech to keep my neighbors happy, seeing the nuance their way, is a direct attack on my speech.
No one has ever had a “freedom to demand others broadcast my personal speech at great technical and financial cost”.
Anyone who thinks “free speech” obliges others to distribute their message is of dubious sanity.
It’s authoritarian af to believe everyone else is your tape recorder.
Edit: of course those who are all about free speech downvote me, proving my point; you aren’t obliged to import my message personally and chose to censor it publicly. But Twitter… they’re not people. Just big black box. So much for HN being a community of thinkers.
Humans were giving away their service to the church for promises of forever life.
Mass delusions are easy to propagate as they require little emotional nuance; a salute, tattoo, incantation… those used to be enough to bind large groups.
Groups are out though. We’re leaning into enabling humans as atomic agents and automating away the utilitarian social obligations, and work of biological survival to get there.
I was not speaking to taxation. I’m speaking to private influence on wages, regressive taxation, privilege for the financial elite, the real health issues and costs of extreme inequality as being authoritarian.
Relativity; being poor isn’t a character flaw. Lack of experience means not knowing what one should be fighting for.
Relativity is a scientific fact yet in the free world we enable class-based suffering. Do we throw them in a gulag?
No, we let them rot in the open in tents under bridges, and complain about it. We’re far more civilized.
Even for engineers buying power is incredibly diminished by inflation to prop up Bloomberg’s and grandpa’s property portfolio he was able to afford starting in 1970.
Normalized agency in deference to political nostalgia not what communities need isn’t constrained to China and has real consequences on lives. Is it jackboots with machine guns? No. But the effects are just as measurable.
I get the difference. It doesn’t absolve our culture of ignoring it’s deficiencies. But look what happens at a university in 2008 when students simply sit on the ground.
Is there a difference? Or have we just accepted our fate?
I don’t think I’m the one that needs to take tour advice.
I don’t really see the inequality of representation and taxation in capitalism as any less authoritarian.
If everything I do is being validated for value by management and bosses, and my buying power is managed by bankers who have inflationary powers to dilute my earnings, we’ve just made managed economy ephemeral. We’ve socially normalized grift and protection rackets.
Some estimates suggest up to 30% of inmates are innocent. And when plenty are in there for marijuana, that’s a bit more petty than a billionaire disrupting an entire society.
Rather than real prisons we let people die on the streets from preventable disease so we can say we didn’t force anyone into anything as if letting them rot is glass half full.
It’s a shame the “I am educated and worldly” community hasn’t put much though into the depth to which relativity applies to human existence.
If we’re going to intentionally avoid lifting people up at the cost of putting agency into propping up the already rich, well, the poor can never experience the alternative to form meta opinions.
This bantering in traditional political memes is patronizing and ignorant af given our scientific understanding of reality.
What do you suggest that will make a difference in yet another human era of aristocratic capture of our lives and agency.
They do not have an information advantage, just a political one.
And we can see how concerned the general public is with taking control of politics for its gain. It very clearly prefers to be hands off and let a minority manipulate public agency for their gain.
They don’t require a biological mutation but they do require a change in agency, social state.
Take society as an organism in the abstract and it definitely needs to mutate.
Crichton was a pop science author, right-wing believer in America. His idea small groups get things done was lost on this guy who watched entire corporations publish his books and movies. I’d take his philosophy and science creds with a grain of salt.
The masses were too busy collectively validating his banal artistic efforts, so of course he would balk at collectivism philosophically while ignoring it took a village to lift him up.
Those folks are scared that if everyone can have time to write mediocre sci fi they’d have to get real jobs.
No one thought “glass” because the outcome was predetermined.
Employees do not care about financial or literal waste.
They only meme in mind when they go to their job for “make money”.
I goto meetings with a vision and zero fucks about the implementation all the time. Why you expect that to be different otherwise in the same culture is beyond me.
Our biological sensibilities are too easily confused by concepts we don’t fully grasp, and come on; there is so much rubber stamping and favoritism (even now I know the founder of my company is invited to private sessions in DC to hammer out rules that favor us and we’ve proven nothing).
This forum seems to have too much of a naive and weirdly trusting belief in such subjective and hand wavy ideas when literal reality is offering plenty of evidence to the contrary in the political sections of a newspaper.
Academics, thinkers, have been warning about private power eroding public for decades.
Oh sure SV specifically is new NOW, but they haven’t done anything Walmart didn’t do to little communities decades before, or ATT hasn’t done; co-opt control of public government for private gain.
I’m done with this community. It’s a bunch of ostriches who are equivocating their failures as political agents; don’t login. They lose their power.
Stop living in the bespoke simulation in your head.