Western TechGods inhabit a unique position according to a Silicon Valley journalist.
....outlining the connections between these men (and it is all men) and the origins of their often deeply weird beliefs, many of which view everyone outside their circle or opposed to their agenda as expendable.
They are the landed white men of our time and happen to have billions, if not trillions in wealth. A paralyzed and conflicted political system already ceded power to private equity underwriters (PEU) over the last two decades. It is wholly incapable of dealing with TechGods given their wanton illegal business models (intellectual property theft), casting aside of drug laws (ketamine) and ability to provide overwhelming financial sponsorship for candidates.
TechGods noticed and copied the PEU playbook with searing and audacious adaptations. They were ably coached by fellow TechGod J.D. Vance, albeit a junior version in Silicon Valley as well as the White House.
These former libertarians make huge bank off Uncle Sam's wallet and believe they can manage a country better than elected officials or paid bureaucrats. They occupy multiple full time jobs, skating in and out of CEO, board, advisory and other ownership roles.
Under management theory they have the skill of Chris Farley on ice skates, yet they own the rink, the building, the block and the city. They desire no feedback on their performance as they have no peers.
TechGods are superior in every way and they believe they have to design the future, even if it means taking away rights and turning citizens into rats pressing a bar for a piece of cheese or to avoid an electric shock.
I removed a reference to TechGods giving payback to jocks and the high school "in crowd" as part of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's disdain of sales people. What did not fit yesterday finds a home today in The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.
My wise friend noted:
Every time a pension fund buys a stock in an ETF that forces valuations higher, benefiting each of the fellows in the article. That ever increasing wealth gives them the fuel to light democracy as we know it. They use the market mechanism to destroy the public and enhance their security.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one and the average citizen hates the whole stinking lot.
