These people are gross...
From Drilled News
"What if instead of countries there were just a bunch of regions controlled by corporations? Srinivasan posits. Ah, "disrupting" democracy with...feudalism! I'm sorry but as someone who reported on cleantech during the dot-com boom and watched startups "disrupt" everything from laundry to taxis, making all such services worse for people and more profitable for one annoying douchebag, it's hard to take these ideas seriously.
And yet, we must, because for years now Thiel, Andreeson et al have been talking about their disdain not just for democracy, but also for the United States, the dollar, the rights of anyone they deem beneath them, and for the very idea of a "common good." And because they now have an enormous amount of control over not just the U.S. government but several others, and are moving to enact their plans.
...I think it's tough for some folks to wrap their heads around the idea that there are people out there who aren't just self-interested, but actually see self-interest as a virtue. Who do not in fact want to be in a society with you. Who genuinely don't care if they harm the public in their pursuit of whatever they want because they believe they are past such concepts as "the public interest," that they have evolved beyond such things. That there are folks who think feudalism and colonialism are the future so long as they're enabled by AI and crypto, that eugenics is a good idea that just got a bad rap, that if you're smart enough you can cheat death, and that most people are too dumb to know they're serfs.
This is the ideology we're dealing with, any strategy to reverse course must take that into account."
https://drilled.ghost.io/network-state/