Somehow, I doubt there's many other sneerers in Hanoi, but you never know...
JohnBierce
joined 2 years ago
As a non-tech person who has zero idea what Urbit is, this is still deeply funny to me.
I'm guessing there's probably a libertarian bent to this whole thing, somehow?
Seldom have I seen anyone who has drunk their own kool-aid deeper than SBF.
Oh heck yeah new Dan Olson
The full book is well worth the read, imho.
You should check out the book A Libertarian Walks into a Bear for another great example, if you haven't already!
Uggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
Huh a friend of mine recommended this to me recently, I should check it out
I... actually like it a lot, and wouldn't mind switching to it? But also, if I'm the only one who'd be interested, I don't want to be a bother, I can use the current format just fine.
Oooh, Quinn Slobodian! Just read his book Crack-Up Capitalism, good stuff.
Yeah, there's absolutely a place for arguments that aren't full-bore "capitalism is evil, forward the revolution!" Some people need to be eased into that space, and articles like this, that show how fundamentally stupid and terrible Musk and company are, are a great way to get people to start asking HOW dingbats like that got power. And it's not the longest journey from there to questioning whether something is wrong with the system itself.
(There are failure states, of course- namely, reinforcing the neoliberal idea that if you just put better people in charge of a system, it will work better. But that's a question of execution, not of tactical validity.)