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The 80-year-old book that explains Elon Musk and tech’s new right-wing tilt
Vox ^ | Dec 14, 2022 | Zack Beauchamp

Posted on 12/15/2022 4:47:53 PM PST by jdege

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Two things that Beauchamp is missing:


1 posted on 12/15/2022 4:47:53 PM PST by jdege
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Really? I could come up with a dozen better candidates off the top of my head, starting with the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

Bottom of the barrel talent, in desperation.


2 posted on 12/15/2022 4:49:31 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Elon Mosk is “right-wing”?


3 posted on 12/15/2022 4:49:45 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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“The real lesson of Musk’s ownership of Twitter is that this remains true today.”

The author doesn’t understand Musk and how ztwitter fits in the grand scheme.


4 posted on 12/15/2022 4:52:49 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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New definition of “right wing:” Anything that isn’t a leftist echo chamber.


5 posted on 12/15/2022 4:53:12 PM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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yep


6 posted on 12/15/2022 5:02:33 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Long winded bullshit. What a waste of time.


7 posted on 12/15/2022 5:03:48 PM PST by Musketeer
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Still this is a very interesting story and worth knowing.


8 posted on 12/15/2022 5:05:30 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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I wish buying up one company could ‘tilt’ the entire tech industry into a new direction.


9 posted on 12/15/2022 5:06:31 PM PST by jarwulf
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BOD who represent the shareholders were on board with what the managers were doing

and they were lying to the public and Congress

dont remember any of the previous shareholders speaking out against the censorship policies

its got nothing to do with “managerial class”

it just a difference between owners

as they say “under new management”


10 posted on 12/15/2022 5:11:59 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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Vox...a rabid leftist site. ‘Nough said.


11 posted on 12/15/2022 5:19:24 PM PST by Fungi
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The thing this person is missing is these “managers” can not be fired by the founders of incorporated businesses, because these companies have boards which hire and fire the CEO. Sure, the original found “might” sit on the board, but they are only one of many voices. The left used government to force most companies to incorporate, then used the corporate structure to snatch power from the founders and put managers in place to push woke ideology that the founder would never had hired if they were still a sole proprietor.


12 posted on 12/15/2022 5:22:24 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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>Elon Mosk is “right-wing”?

From a communist’s point of view, yes.


13 posted on 12/15/2022 5:25:39 PM PST by fretzer
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Reading Vox for information is akin to reading Superman Comics for info on quantum physics.


14 posted on 12/15/2022 5:27:52 PM PST by Da Coyote
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The wokesters figured Musk would maintain the status quo to avoid damaging the company.Instead, Musk is exposing all its sins for exactly the same reason.


15 posted on 12/15/2022 5:37:46 PM PST by bigbob (z)
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The wokesters figured Musk would maintain the status quo to avoid damaging the company.Instead, Musk is exposing all its sins for exactly the same reason.


16 posted on 12/15/2022 5:38:16 PM PST by bigbob (z)
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Corrupt Democrat scum will be coming for Musk. Phony charges and a midnight FBI raid.


17 posted on 12/15/2022 5:46:49 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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>>>Long winded bullshit. What a waste of time.

Leftist BS for sure.


18 posted on 12/15/2022 5:48:10 PM PST by existentially_kuffer
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I think of an older book....Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay, 1841.

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."

19 posted on 12/15/2022 5:49:05 PM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
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I want to see some evidence that Elon Musk has ever read Burnham’s book “The Managerial Revolution.”

The article is fairly well written, but that one part seems like just grasping for getting Musk’s name into the headline for click bait.


20 posted on 12/15/2022 5:51:44 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
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