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he outlines this massive surveillance society under the pretense that ethical, responsible people will be in charge, undermined by his effort to cement a permanent zealot kakistocracy in a country too corrupt to have working regulators or corporate accountability of any kind

these people are broadly evil but I also genuinely think most of them are genuinely very stupid and stumbled ass first into extreme wealth

like who is this mythological human presence at the end of the line of AI hyper surveillance imposing any sort of ethics in a country that's too corrupt to function and led by extremists who operate at a fifth-grade reading level? You? You're not qualified and you're going to be dead soon, dipshit.

The amount of privilege in the way he and others like him navigate the world is the root of this problem. He believes this solutions will work because that’s the way the world works for him. It’s very much a “let them eat” cake level of disconnect with the average person and the world they live in.

Have they heard about that fella Orwell or nah?

"Orwell is when people say their pronouns" is probably the beginning and end of their "understanding" here.