Why exercise immature Billionaires suggest wildly liberal social policies?
Why does Elon Musk await similar a Bond villain?
One declaration I learn from some readers - as well as it is a credentialist declaration - is that socialist policies similar "guaranteed basic income" are beingness promoted past times the novel generation of high-tech Billionaires similar leave your pen at home. And oddly plenty , some other figurer guru - who genuinely had some programming smarts - turned downward the deal , which allowed Gates to pick out it. Smart as well as lucky!
But fifty-fifty if y'all assume the premise of stride #1 is truthful , and that the logic of steps #2 as well as #3 are right , stride #4 is a full saltation of faith. Just because someone is smart inwards say , computing , doesn't brand them an skilful inwards social policy!
So why are these folks pushing for to a greater extent than Socialism? Why exercise they desire the vast bulk of Americans to transcend passive consumers who alive on a regime servant as well as simply sit down approximately as well as purchase things online as well as purpose facebook all twenty-four hours long?
Oh , hold off , I mean value we've flora the answer. Bingo. They desire us all to hold upward passive , depressed consumers who are non self-actualizing or self-motivated , but instead waiting for a regime subsidy or regime handout. They don't desire any of us getting clever ideas similar starting a social networking website or online payment system. No , no , ameliorate off to receive got us all every bit passive consumers , give cheers you.
Even ameliorate , passive consumers who worship immature Billionaires every bit social heroes. And aye , these sorts of tech groupies be - unremarkably people who are non inwards the tech job concern as well as don't empathise how it works. Apple fans are all agog most Steve Jobs , believing he invented the personal figurer , something called an "iPod" (I saw 1 inwards a museum once!) as well as of course of teaching the smart telephone , or every bit they telephone yell upward it , the iPhone (what are those other things that don't receive got apples on them?). There was some guy named "Woz" but I mean value he was some form of Muppet or something. Not important.
They also mean value Jobs was a social progressive , which fits into the narrative. Bill Gates realized this as well as rapidly founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. You can't hold upward a goodness tech Billionaire without a liberal social conscious!
So y'all run across , this is business office of a designing inwards silicon valley. You receive got to appear to hold upward progressive as well as generous - particularly amongst other people's money. As for y'all ain , good , you hold that as well as construct horrendously ugly monster houses , odd-looking yachts , or whatever. But when it comes to social policy , the regime should stride inwards as well as fund the neat unwashed masses whose jobs your technology "took away" or whose jobs went overseas when y'all moved all your factories to Red People's Republic of China as well as hired Indian Engineers amongst H1-B visas - right?.
I am beingness a piddling sarcastic amongst that terminal remark , as well as I personally don't run across a job amongst companies moving production to areas where costs are depression , as well as I'd rather run across an Indian Engineer over hither adding to our technological prowess than running some scam call-center inwards his dwelling country. And technology is ever going to supersede jobs - that is a fact of life. New jobs volition hold upward created to pick out their place.
Besides , as I noted a few years ago , the toll of production inwards Red People's Republic of China is starting to ratchet upward , as well as fifty-fifty the Chinese are talking most edifice factories inwards the USA , because our toll of issue energy is real depression , our project costs receive got bottomed out , as well as our infrastructure as well as transportation network is far superior to theirs. We volition surpass Red People's Republic of China inwards manufacturing output within a few years at this rate. (And as well as thus nosotros volition fuck it all upward past times going out on strike , of course).
So past times as well as thus , Apple volition hold upward "heroes" for bringing dorsum some production capabilities to America , fifty-fifty if they are token amounts. But I digress.
I would non read likewise much into these pronouncement past times Musk as well as Zuckerberg. They give these speeches to brand themselves pop as well as to pander to the masses. They are non social scientific discipline experts , simply ii guys who were inwards the right identify at the right fourth dimension , worked difficult , as well as got lucky. They were non necessarily smarter than their competitors , as well as fifty-fifty if they were , that doesn't brand them experts inwards social or revenue enhancement policy - at to the lowest degree non to a greater extent than of an skilful than y'all or I or the human on the street is.
And quite frankly , I mean value they are just patently wrong. While novel technologies receive got supplanted jobs inwards the past times - as well as transcend on to exercise thus - for some strange argue , Americans hold finding novel jobs as well as working fifty-fifty longer hours. Even every bit the size of the workforce has to a greater extent than than doubled since I was a tiddler (due to population increase as well as women entering the workplace) nosotros seemed to hold finding jobs for people , fifty-fifty if they are never at the reward they'd similar to have (a job than has been approximately since twelvemonth zero). Unemployment is at tape lows today , fifty-fifty every bit technology as well as outsourcing "takes jobs away".
So the taxi driver supplanted past times the self-driving machine volition uncovering some other chore - perhaps installing Musk's solar shingles. Or perhaps self-driving cars are non every bit closed to reality every bit we'd similar to think. It is difficult to say whether autonomous vehicles are the moving ridge of the hereafter , or whether it is simply a characteristic - similar cruise command - that ends upward every bit an help to driving as well as non something than supplants it. We'll see.
But long floor curt , I don't mean value nosotros should give much acceptance to social policy speeches past times tech Billionaires - or worse notwithstanding , assume that because someone makes a lot of coin inwards life , they know what's best for the residue of us.
I hateful , that is how nosotros ended upward amongst President Trump , eh?
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