If they didn't have neuroses they wouldn't be extremely powerful tech oligarchs, thats just the way it works.uziq wrote:
i'm more concerned about the neuroses of extremely powerful tech oligarchs.
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What I find interesting about these tech leaders is there no sense of civic duty. Every politician I know tries to wrap what they do in the spirit of civil service. I participated in special education little league today. All of the politicians were there. No doubt many of them are genuine sociopaths but they know enough to package what they do in a respectable wrapper. The Trump era of performative ugliness is just historical strange. It feels like what politics becomes right before disaster.uziq wrote:
i dunno, man, i know plenty of highly motivated, driven, ambitious people who aren't psychopaths or social failures. being well-rounded and retaining basic senses of human empathy and decency are laudable aims, actually! singular focus on profit/world-domination/technological monopolies are precisely what get us into these messes, time and time again. i don't think it's particularly difficult or beyond society to muzzle or rein in the evil nerd misfits, either, to be honest. perhaps we need to reintroduce robust bullying in school and demote all this Marvel movie nonsense that makes it seem edgy or in any way interesting to be a social misfit.
