This techno-fascist trend can best be understood through the lens of a cognitive bias called 'elite projection': where the rich and powerful believe that everyo

This techno-fascist trend can best be understood through the lens of a cognitive bias called 'elite projection': where the rich and powerful believe that everyone shares their preferences and plans accordingly. 'Freedom' from the likes of Peter Thiel is best understood as "I should be allowed to do what I want". On the surface, it's silly and lame: Adam Something, a vlogger, did a great video demonstrating how Elon's driverless pod concept could never work in the real world. So it's easy to dismiss as rich people being stupid, but what we're seeing emerge here, is something much darker and far more sinister. Money amplifies speech, reach and political power, and so one's freedom is commensurate with their wealth. Combine that with how big business and private equity have switched to basically strip-mining the middle class through rent-seeking, and we are looking at a future of fascist billionaire feral elites ruling over everyone else as serfs. Peter Thiel is a key supporter of the 'Dark Enlightenment' intellectual movement: a metastasis of the alt-Right into an overly White-supremacist, elitist neo-reactionary movement, and they are getting serious traction everywhere. Be afraid. I am.