i have to say this entire experience has made me feel more warmly toward techies (who mostly nailed this) and normies (who are getting screwed) and deeply contemptuous of people who shit on techies as they were so busy doing this they neglected to evaluate our empirical claims https://twitter.com/isosteph/status/1243794537740251136 …
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"you were right and we ignored you and now the economy is collapsing and tens or hundreds of thousands of americans are going to die but would it kill you to be a little more socially conscious like we are"
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and you know the problem is Everywhere its not just the US getting hosed its everywhere this is an irresistible indictment of the entire fucking Davos class bro you just posted decadent incompetence you are going to lose mandate of heaven
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its some Heian shit elites just fucking each other and trying exciting new deviances and not bothering to govern because what the hell could go wrong good things don't just HAPPEN they require care and attention Don't you get it? If you die in the real world you die for real
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Techies vs. elites would be an awesome frame if the people in the tech industry were offering us a realistic way forward that didn’t just reinforce elites and tear down the few mechanisms we had to oppose them.
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No, I know
I guess the core problem is just the absolute state of our elites and I don't know how to fix this
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You have to grapple with the idea that some of the ideas that made you rich also produced our current moment. And I see absolutely no sign of that grappling.
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Are you suggesting that Instacart hollowed out the CDC
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No, but FB and Goog definitely hollowed out the media industry. They were ad monopolists before, and all of a sudden had to compete with data-rich behemoths
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imo the failure of media has led to a cascade of other failures
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I have a bunch of complex thoughts about this but I think the chain of causality is complex to say the least and note media has been shit for a long time remember Iraq?
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