The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doomed to become an open-air museum. Sure, it's possible that things have to get worse before they get better, but believing that "it's over" is just loser talk. It's never over, but the old world also won't recover by itself...
With people like him I’d say it’s about a combination of being contrarían in general, being surrounded by yes men, and looking up to rich assholes.
More generally, we can all fall for reactionary crap if we don’t see it for what it is and if it speaks to some grievance we have. We need to be smarter and look at historical patterns, the fascists never helped any workers, they just got countless people killed, and letting them rise to power eventually leads to someone, either you or someone you care about, being next.
Right wing tech folks abuse their workers and customers, which brings in money to grow the company. Which makes their companies enormous.
If you treat customers and workers fairly, you’ll earn much less money, slowing down the growth of your company. Which ends up eliminating you via competition.
Companies can only be ethical if governments force them to be so. Otherwise their future is doomed.
What is it about tech folks being magnetically attracted to right-wing ideologies?
Negative bias. We notice these anomalies more than we notice the ones that don’t disappoint their mothers.
Nobody even knows who Arthur David Olsen is.
please don’t say tech folks. his degrees were cs and business administration. hes a business guy not a tech guy. just like gates.
With people like him I’d say it’s about a combination of being contrarían in general, being surrounded by yes men, and looking up to rich assholes.
More generally, we can all fall for reactionary crap if we don’t see it for what it is and if it speaks to some grievance we have. We need to be smarter and look at historical patterns, the fascists never helped any workers, they just got countless people killed, and letting them rise to power eventually leads to someone, either you or someone you care about, being next.
Survivorship bias.
Right wing tech folks abuse their workers and customers, which brings in money to grow the company. Which makes their companies enormous.
If you treat customers and workers fairly, you’ll earn much less money, slowing down the growth of your company. Which ends up eliminating you via competition.
Companies can only be ethical if governments force them to be so. Otherwise their future is doomed.