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San Francisco's pro-billionaire march draws dozens

17 points by SilverElfin 9mo ago

jyounker 9mo ago
At first I thought this would be a misinterpreted culture jamming event, but nope, some poorly informed tech bro trying to garner attention for himself.
biglyburrito 9mo ago
Previously on Arrested Development...
- tim-tday 9mo ago
  “There are dozens of us! Dozens!” Fantastic headline.
ferrouswheel 9mo ago
Well it's obvious this protest was paid for. Or the protestors pathetically hope the billionaires will notice them and invest in their startups.
- Analemma_ 9mo ago
  Honestly, that would actually be better than the reality of the situation; at least they’d be doing it to get that bag. But I saw some of the organizing around this on Twitter, and several of the people who went are True Believers who really do think billionaires are making our lives better and that they deserve more appreciation. When I first read some Lovecraft stories, one part that always stuck out to me as unbelievable was the Cthulhu worshippers. Why would you worship Cthulhu, the evil god who won’t even reward you for it? But more recently I’ve started to get it.
  - CamperBob2 9mo ago
    Why would you worship Cthulhu, the evil god who won’t even reward you for it? Here's a helpful brochure: https://www.entrelineas.org/pdf/assets/who-will-be-eaten-first-howard-hallis-2004.pdf https://www.entrelineas.org/pdf/assets/who-will-be-eaten-fir... (730 kB .pdf) Probably as good an explanation as any. Note that the same question can be asked of the so-called "high agency" billionaires such as Musk and Bezos, as they suck up to a New York real-estate hustler who bankrupted four casinos among dozens of other failed ventures. The obvious, most logical explanation, apart from tariff exemptions, merger approvals, and quashed investigations, is that they want to be eaten first.
-_- 9mo ago
Organizer of the march here. I think while our messaging was more provocative, our beliefs are pretty similar to what PG outlined in https://paulgraham.com/ineq.html https://paulgraham.com/ineq.html or what Garry Tan has been saying about the tax.
- Schmerika 9mo ago
  > similar to what PG outlined in https://paulgraham.com/ineq.html https://paulgraham.com/ineq.html or what Garry Tan has been saying Oh, those people who loved what DOGE was doing, even after it became apparent DOGE's cuts would kill millions of people and permanently compromise critical government systems. Cool role models :/ Almost as cool as Bezos, the centibillionaire whose employees piss in bottles for efficiency. 'These billionaires told us that it's actually great to cut taxes on billionaires, and let them do whatever they like!' ... Bruh. Our species really doesn't have time for this. Billionaires are an existential threat to democracy, the planet, the oceans, space, etc. Working for them on a voluntary basis to fight a 5% wealth tax is extraordinarily negative EV. For everyone. ... Have you tried looking up your billionaire heroes in the Epstein files? I'd highly recommend it before organizing any more marches for them.

17 points by SilverElfin 9mo ago

At first I thought this would be a misinterpreted culture jamming event, but nope, some poorly informed tech bro trying to garner attention for himself.

biglyburrito 9mo ago

Previously on Arrested Development...

tim-tday 9mo ago
“There are dozens of us! Dozens!” Fantastic headline.

ferrouswheel 9mo ago

Well it's obvious this protest was paid for. Or the protestors pathetically hope the billionaires will notice them and invest in their startups.

Analemma_ 9mo ago
Honestly, that would actually be better than the reality of the situation; at least they’d be doing it to get that bag. But I saw some of the organizing around this on Twitter, and several of the people who went are True Believers who really do think billionaires are making our lives better and that they deserve more appreciation. When I first read some Lovecraft stories, one part that always stuck out to me as unbelievable was the Cthulhu worshippers. Why would you worship Cthulhu, the evil god who won’t even reward you for it? But more recently I’ve started to get it.
- CamperBob2 9mo ago
  Why would you worship Cthulhu, the evil god who won’t even reward you for it? Here's a helpful brochure: https://www.entrelineas.org/pdf/assets/who-will-be-eaten-first-howard-hallis-2004.pdf https://www.entrelineas.org/pdf/assets/who-will-be-eaten-fir... (730 kB .pdf) Probably as good an explanation as any. Note that the same question can be asked of the so-called "high agency" billionaires such as Musk and Bezos, as they suck up to a New York real-estate hustler who bankrupted four casinos among dozens of other failed ventures. The obvious, most logical explanation, apart from tariff exemptions, merger approvals, and quashed investigations, is that they want to be eaten first.

-_- 9mo ago

Organizer of the march here. I think while our messaging was more provocative, our beliefs are pretty similar to what PG outlined in https://paulgraham.com/ineq.html https://paulgraham.com/ineq.html or what Garry Tan has been saying about the tax.

Schmerika 9mo ago
> similar to what PG outlined in https://paulgraham.com/ineq.html https://paulgraham.com/ineq.html or what Garry Tan has been saying Oh, those people who loved what DOGE was doing, even after it became apparent DOGE's cuts would kill millions of people and permanently compromise critical government systems. Cool role models :/ Almost as cool as Bezos, the centibillionaire whose employees piss in bottles for efficiency. 'These billionaires told us that it's actually great to cut taxes on billionaires, and let them do whatever they like!' ... Bruh. Our species really doesn't have time for this. Billionaires are an existential threat to democracy, the planet, the oceans, space, etc. Working for them on a voluntary basis to fight a 5% wealth tax is extraordinarily negative EV. For everyone. ... Have you tried looking up your billionaire heroes in the Epstein files? I'd highly recommend it before organizing any more marches for them.