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It just seems like a way to achieve massive power over other people and living things. Who are the altruistic God like beings who are/will weild(ing) such power?

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Mar 30, 2019

God is your friend, but only so he can establish your market value to his various soul brokers. He "cares deeply" about your existence, but is turking our oversight to an overworked demiurge of middling ability.

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Thiel makes more sense to me by the minute.

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How do you mean?

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The metaphysics of "god has a plan for you"-evangelicalism and the economic structures of Silicon Valley data brokers are eerily alike.

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Peter Theil said that?

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Nawh man. Just musing on the causes for that peculiar admixture of tech billionaire and New Eden fantasist. Being very self-referential here, so sorry for the lack of clarity.

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Trump is a religious figure.

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Capitalism is a religious system, period, IMO. Invisible hand, free market, mythological constructs bestowing virtue of the greedy, economy's as priests, gatekeepers, elite monopoly on shared cultural production vs masses, etc.

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Every human belief system is either quasi-religious or mystic, IMO. We don't operate by fact, and our thinking is not computationally potent enough to operate without article-of-faith heuristics.

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Some more than others. The more transparent, distributed, inclusive, adaptive and accountable an institution is, then more grounded in reality it can be. Capitalism eschews all of that with hand waves toward invisible market powers.