Sorry about the formatting. The excerpt should be three paragraphs, not one.
Olde time robber barons didn’t work so closely with big gov to get their payouts and solidify their monopolies....
Sounds like they don’t even employ Americans anymore. Like the business side of the UN resides in San Fran
Genius never was the same as wisdom. These propeller heads are going to learn that the hard way.
Perfect quote for this:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
-From C.S. Lewis’s essay anthology “God in the Dock” (1948)
At least Kotkin is pointing it out.
All of us who live and work in the center of it see it every day.
“Technocoolies” - Kotkin just added a new word to the vernacular.
And it rings true. Walk around downtown San Jose or Redmond and you think you’re in Mumbai.
So much for IT creating the new jobs everyone was supposed to get when the “old jobs” went to China.
When the Regressives look in the mirror, and try to convince themselves they’re “on the side of the little guy”, they will see the faces of Exploitation looking back at them.
The new Slavocracy....the Silicon Slum
Yep, They are EVIL, Capitalists, they must be destroyed..
Does amazon.com pay ANY taxes?
They left off Micro$oft, the true f@arting elephant in the room.