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Sam Altman controls billions of dollars in assets, and attends Bilderberg and Bohemian Grove events. He's sort of the walking definition of social and economic
by CPLX 3y ago
Sam Altman controls billions of dollars in assets, and attends Bilderberg and Bohemian Grove events. He's sort of the walking definition of social and economic power.
- unityByFreedom 3y agoAnd yet, he nearly lost his job. None of us are perfect, nor are any of us better than any other. Let's cut the idolizing.
- solardev 3y agoNot many from us can go from "nearly losing the job" to "getting 95% of the employees to demand your return, firing the board that tried to oust him, and then returning with absolute power". There's something to be said about that, lol. Probably not even Musk has that kind of power.
- unityByFreedom 3y agoThat kind of "power" can turn on a dime. I'd be wary of it. In this case the mob learned they have influence when they work together. That doesn't mean they are loyal to Altman, rather that they are influential when united.
- tptacek 3y agoSo he goes to extremely boring cringe meetups. Who cares?
- unityByFreedom 3y agoHah I just read about "Bohemian Grove." Do techies consider that sacred ground because Oppenheimer discussed the atomic bomb there? The idol worship present in SV is so thick I can hardly see anything else.
- jwoq9118 3y agoThis is entirely subjective. Hope you can see how this isn’t exactly a strong argument.
- tptacek 3y agoI'm still trying to figure out what the argument is.
- CPLX 3y agoThe argument is that Sam Altman is a central player among the small group of extremely wealthy people whose personalities and decision-making decides how you and me will live our lives. They buy and sell our politicians, set policy directly or by proxy, and make decisions that lead to prosperity for some and mass misery and death for others. None of this is subtle or a conspiracy theory, it's how our society is structured, it's not particularly confusing unless you choose for it to be.
- tptacek 3y agoBecause he went to the Bilderberg conference?
- CPLX 3y ago"The political-science professors, perfectly sane men, look at me with wonder when I talk about the ruling class in America. They say, “You are one of those conspiracy theorists. You think there’s a headquarters and they get together at the Bohemian Grove and run the United States.” Well, they do get together at the Bohemian Grove and do a lot of picking of Secretaries of State, anyway. But they don’t have to conspire. They all think alike. It goes back to the way we’re raised, the schools we went to–after all, I’m a reluctant member of this group. You don’t have to give orders to the editor of The New York Times. He is in place because he will respond to a crisis the way you want him to, as will the President, as will the head of the Chase Manhattan Bank." - Gore Vidal
- aetherson 3y ago20 years ago, it was, "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money," but nowadays I question whether a billion here and there even realistically adds up to real money. The amount of assets Altman controls are unimpressive on the scale of "who controls power in society," and there are literally thousands of people who control more money.