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Yeah, populism is quite a constant throughout history. People love having a savior and a hero, as demagogue as they might be. I find it interesting how this po

Yeah, populism is quite a constant throughout history. People love having a savior and a hero, as demagogue as they might be. I find it interesting how this populism takes shape in the tech industry. It manifests as companies pretending to be all about mission, community, changing the world, billionaires pretending to be pro-freedom, capitalists pretending to be anti-establishment...

achenet 4y ago
That's one neat trick of capitalism - it's really good at selling you a critique of it as a luxury good. "Turning rebellion into money", as Joe Strummer sang.
- doliveira 4y ago
  Yeah, and what this letter told us is that those people actually bought the PR speech.