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How are all the Silicon Valley tech bros feeling about their divine king Musk now
by zombiwoof 2y ago
How are all the Silicon Valley tech bros feeling about their divine king Musk now
- readyplayernull 2y agoLeft a taste of feet?
- somethoughts 2y agoAt what point can we start calling them Texas Tech Bros? The two primary ones are pretty much living mostly in Texas and Florida at this point.
- black_puppydog 2y agoIf you want the responsibility to be properly deflected, you should now call Musk an "DC bureaucrat". That's technically what he is now after all.
- ModernMech 2y agoSV startup culture created these monsters, they're not absolved (and by extension neither is YC and HN). It validated "move fast and break things", as well as "ends justify the means" mentality. Who cares what laws and norms you trample on as long as it advances your cause, because your cause is saving the world. It's cute when it's 4 scrappy 20-something hackers in a garage working on an app, but it's metastasized into Bond villain danger when it comes to Musk.
- huang_chung 2y agoTech-bros that invented and deployed nearly every privacy-invading technology of the last 20 years, tracked your every movement, scanned your email to show you ads, sold data for profit, now come to HN to cry privacy concern about a government audit.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoI've been consistently pro privacy and tried to withdraw as much of my 2010's data as possible once learning. So yes, i will cry privacy concern about a government audit from a non-auditer. Where is the GOA in all of this?
- drawkward 2y agoI agree, the irony is astounding morally, but legally easily explainable: the constitution protects us from the government, not private enterprise. IMO, the government should protect us from private enterprise, when said enterprise becomes predatory.