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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Replying to @matthew_d_green
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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Replying to @eigenrobot
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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Replying to @matthew_d_green
Are you suggesting that Instacart hollowed out the CDC
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Replying to @eigenrobot @matthew_d_green
This is an interesting thread to pull tbh. Drawing an arrow from Instacart to the CDC is obviously contrived. My best attempt would be to say that gig-economy startups have fostered public antipathy towards regulatory oversight, which made current regimes more palatable.
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Replying to @jkachmar @matthew_d_green
Where would greater regulatory oversight have helped here Does the CDC have power to regulate in China Would greater impediments to creating local tests have let us gain greater awareness of community spread
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Replying to @eigenrobot @matthew_d_green
Historically, to my knowledge, the CDC had been extremely proactive in responding to potentially dangerous pandemics outside the US. This response had been exceptionally poor, and I attribute that to the organization having been severely deprioritized over the last 3 years.
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cf. Ebola response. Lots of proactivity both outside of US boarders initially, and within them afterwards. Arguably, public sentiment has driven preferences in government away from trusting that these institutions should be staffed and maintained by competent people.
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Like I said though, low confidence that this isn’t a contrived attempt to draw a relationship between two disparate things. Realistically, I have no confidence that I can assess what’s caused American institutions to decline so aggressively in the last 50 years without bias.
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yeah
Its a messy fucking story
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