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It's really easy for me to imagine my government being run worse than it is today. But anyway, it's a fallacy to think that just because something is bad, repl
by karaterobot 3y ago
It's really easy for me to imagine my government being run worse than it is today.
But anyway, it's a fallacy to think that just because something is bad, replacing it with just anything at all would be an improvement. The thing you replace government with would have to be better suited to it, which there is just no basis for saying Silicon Valley is. In fact, there's enough evidence that SV is bad at governing their own very very small kingdoms, even with the benefit of an existing infrastructure and rule of law, established by others, in place.
Man, it's weird for me to be in the position of defending government. I'm not that guy. But tech leadership is just laughably unsuited to replacing them.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoTech people tend to be good at tech (duh), but not as good at relating to people. Well, government, politics, and civics are all about relating to people - many of them who are different from you, and different from each other. So, as you say, the tech people are unsuited for this role - maybe even uniquely unsuited. But they don't know what they don't know, and in blissful, arrogant ignorance, they decide that of course they'd be great at it. They wouldn't. They'd be terrible at it, even at local government.
- pixl97 3y agoTech: "Government is easy, just kill everyone and replace them with robots". Of course that isn't significantly different than authoritarianism: "Government is easy, just kill anyone that says anything bad about you". Turns out democracy is just really hard.