The tech billionaire overlords want you to think that tech is by default apolitical. It is not. Tech increasingly controls human lives, insofar is the way thi

The tech billionaire overlords want you to think that tech is by default apolitical. It is not. Tech increasingly controls human lives, insofar is the way things are coded only allow for outcomes consistent with the codebase (whether intentional outcomes or not), that are dictated by the user's flow through the codebase. When you control a human life's outcomes, you are doing something explicitly political. Every dollar flowing into X, Amazon, Meta is now a dollar that ladders up directly (Elon Musk) or indirectly (donations to Trump) to the current administration. When anyone can donate unlimited amounts to SuperPACs--when money is regarded as speech--then everything with a dollar value is political. Until political campaigns are funded by tax dollars, and capped at that level, everything that is touched by money, not just tech, is political.