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I hear you on "imperfect to various degrees"... but I think that's being quite generous with respect to his leap into full blown fascism and eugenics. And I sa
by y0eswddl 1y ago
I hear you on "imperfect to various degrees"... but I think that's being quite generous with respect to his leap into full blown fascism and eugenics.
And I say this as an OG fan-boy, myself. [Tho I started championing that there's no such thing as a benevolent billionaire well before everyone else started jumping off the Elon train]
- toomuchtodo 1y agoI am being polite in a forum that demands politeness to enable my continued participation in said forum.
- jacquesm 1y agoDon't comply in advance. HN is pretty tolerant for just speaking your mind, as long as you do so fairly, do not exaggerate and resort to personal attacks. You can say 'that's a stupid idea' but not 'you're stupid', even if most people would draw that conclusion after evaluating the stupid idea. As for Musk, fuck him and the horse he rode in on and I'm really sorry that YC chose to give him a platform. Musk and his colleague billionaires are the biggest risk to society that we have, and I don't care what they currently vote for or whose pockets they are lining. The lot of them are negating our whole system of governance because money = power and they are abusing that power, both to get more power and to diminish the powers that we have historically relied upon to keep us safe. Concentrating that much wealth is problematic when it is old men in Rome and their churches, it is a much bigger problem when it is tech savvy single individuals who collude openly with politicians and autocrats/dictators/wannabe dictators. At least that guy in Rome pretends to have some morals (though, as we know now the Holy Roman Catholic Church is a hotbed of crime and most likely has been so since a really long time).