Silicon Valley’s ultra-individualist philosophy wants to conquer the world
Silicon Valley’s ultra-individualist philosophy wants to conquer the world
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Why have society then? If we are going to return to the ideals of the jungle? Which, if thats the case, this is even less than that because people actually banded together in the wild.
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Finally someone who thinks the same!
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The people with the most money are always about doing for yourself and helping no-one else. That's how they get that money in the first place. But they never mind taking from others
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I see nothing individualist with building centralized monopolies.
I see plenty. Individualism is the basis of „free” market economy. Free market economy tends to produce monopolies and fascism ;)
Umberto Eco considers Stalin's USSR as one of the main examples of fascism.
Fascist "market" economies have anti-individualist propaganda similar to Soviet one, - about everyone selflessly working for the common goal, accepting hierarchies, normalcy.
Fascism itself is anti-individualist, it's one of the main traits of it, that an individual is a building block for it and nothing more. Except for the will of the people\nation.. expressed in the personalities of the leaders.
Free market economies eventually produce monopolies, because the rest start as monopolies. USSR, again, was basically one humongous corporation, even its planning mechanisms were similar to those that exist inside big corporations. And like many a humongous corporation, it broke up into a few pieces because of C-suite politics.
Except the 99% of times it hasnt
The centralized monopolies are built to serve the interests of, and to consolidate the powers and control of, a relatively small number of individuals. There's nothing more freeing for an individual than total power and control over others.
No, possessing power doesn't mean knowledge, understanding or ability to use it to destroy one's own chains.
No, all kinds of control add to one's own chains, through the need to maintain them.
These are not freeing at all for an individual. These are "freeing" in a perverted sense for the kind of collectivist that wants to be at the top of the collective.
I'm pretty sure they meant ultra-privileged.