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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 obviously part of him wants to build a giant unethical surveillance apparatus in exclusive service to the extraction class, but another part of him is just kind of functionally fucking stupid about how tech and ethics operate and overlap?

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.