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Rich billionaire assholes are ruining every industry. It's not just the tech sector.

I am still stuck in “2014”, which is where I was back in 1995.

But then again, I never became obscenely wealthy by grossly parasitizing off of the labour of other people, so I never had the chance to devolve and become corrupted by capitalism.

This is just a meme, but it does touch on something important. There's a journalist by the name of Douglas Rushkoff. He put out a book last year titled, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaire Elite, and he was invited by a group of 5 anonymous tech oligarchs out to the desert to talk about surviving what they call "The Event", or when the consequences of their actions finally catch up to them.

He also says at the core of their desire to escape it is rooted in something he calls "The Mindset", which is belief that with enough money and technology, wealthy men can live as gods, and transcend the calamities and tribulations that befall us mere mortals.

"The Mindset" is rooted in empirical science, that human beings are nothing more than the sum total of their chemical components, and that's it, and only the "truly superior" (Billionaire Tech Broligarchs) understand that.

I'm so sick of seeing this exact fucking face and facial expression on everything. please just use ms paint to shoddily squiggle a matchstick man, at least it will have personality.

Beware the AI slop Pipeline

Why is pipeline being used for everything now? This is progression. Not pipeline.

I like the other one better.

It's not a pipeline. 2018 and 2025 guys either had 2014 guy killed or they ruined his life and forced him into suicide.

Hardstuck 2014. I'm not changing

The suit infestation of tech

People like 2025 guy have never held thoughts like the other 2, they were always self serving cunts. They just kept a facade till they depended on others, but once they joined the rich fucks club, they dropped the facade.

I have a very very real problem with this oversimplification of very distinct tech viewpoints.

Like, what, you dont think information should be freely available? You LIKE the model where information is locked down with hefty fees? Because that's what the actual "tech bros" want.

This is at best ignorant and at worst just hateful.

Oh I am still at the 2014 phase.

We... used to have a term for people that advanced further: sell-outs.

Though I do very much prefer the recently popularized Cyberpunk lingo:

Fucking Corpo Scum.

Yay I love AI slop, keep feeeding me AI slop I fucking love it, I fucking love AI shit memes, they are definitivelt not obviously AI, and definitively not slop

RIP Aaron Swartz

I'm going in the opposite direction.

I'm recognizing how much we've been herded like sheep just to make rich people richer, and I'm fighting back in the ways that I can.

TIL there were no tech bros before 2014.

"I want to change the world with this tech"

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"3 billion you say? The company is yours!"

The first one is a hacktivist, the second one is an OSS dev, and the third is a tech bro. So not really a pipeline since there are still hacktivists, OSS devs, ans tech enthusiasts (also most tech bros started in finance)

Bad meme. Implies "information wants to be free" leads to "have you considered monetizing empathy?"

Fuck, monetizing empathy. Is that even a fucking option? Can we just buy our way out of this shithole timeline? Can Gates just write a check for 97 billion and we go back to not performing genocide bring us back out of the Jim Crow and misogynist era?

2030: By the implementation of AI, the orphan crushing machine can now process 35% more biomass per hour, providing a sustainable power source to our server parks