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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 May 2019

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted Loren Grush

    Extreme concentration of wealth and elite failure are related the way extreme totalitarianism and fragility go hand-in-hand. The wealth/power bubble means that nobody left around them but sycophants. Nobody to point out their “brilliant” ideas don’t pass high school physics.https://twitter.com/lorengrush/status/1126582358713483264 …

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    Loren GrushVerified account @lorengrush
    Bezos: "If we're out in the solar system, we can have a trillion humans in the solar system, which means we'd have 1000 Mozarts and 1000 Einsteins."
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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 May 2019

        I mean imagine being that rich, but not a single friend left who says, here look at the back of the envelope calculation here. Doesn’t even think to hire someone empowered to point out obvious gaps in thinking, to avoid smart-person in one domain not smart in all domains trap.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 May 2019

        Extreme wealth and power (and fame) are genuinely a type of impoverishment. I know, I know: people are wishing I wish I had that problem. I can understand wanting to be comfortably wealthy. But it seems pretty clear the extreme end isn’t a blessing. Very hard to escape its swamp.

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 May 2019

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ed Miller

        Structurally, it's just one more instance of our inequality-fueled asset-bubble(s). Tulips, $100+ million paintings, subprime-mortage crisis, dot-com boom/bust, Juicero, this. All related. Mozarts among the trillions in space/no of angels on pinheads.https://twitter.com/EdMillerPoker/status/1126850800381153281 …

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        Ed Miller @EdMillerPoker
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        Just gotta hope the weird ideas are mostly harmless
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      1. rhv‏ @RosalieVermeire 10 May 2019
        Replying to @zeynep

        Good god!

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      2. Thomas Mayer #ZeroCovid  🔴‏ @ResiduumMuc 10 May 2019
        Replying to @zeynep

        This begs the question: Is Bezos a Trump in the making?

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 May 2019
        Replying to @ResiduumMuc

        Different lane.

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      2. Ed Miller‏ @EdMillerPoker 10 May 2019
        Replying to @zeynep

        Half the smart people I know say weird stuff like this all the time and don’t really listen when called out by peers. Only the rich ones get their weird thoughts breathlessly reported.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 May 2019
        Replying to @EdMillerPoker

        Yep that’s the smart/knowledgeable in domain, doesn’t understand/accept it doesn’t effortlessly transfer to every other domain trap. I see this all the time among smart/accomplished people. With wealth/power/fame, what hope there’s for corrective mechanisms apparently disappears.

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      1. Alfonso Adriasola‏ @aadriasola 10 May 2019
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        imagine being able to focus on that possibility and completely ignore the planet we’re in where Gaza Mozart is blown to bits and Honduran Mozart is raped in a dark location, Yemeni Mozart is fragged, Israeli Mozart gets rocketed

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      1. CIA Weather Satellite‏ @CIAWeatherSat 10 May 2019
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        All of these tech types want to live forever in an ideal future of their own creation out in space, yet none want to make life better right now on Earth

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