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techno meritocracy boys' club SLAMMED

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited May 2014
http://www.theawl.com/2014/05/the-bros-who-inherited-the-earth

"The most promising sector the economy has is represented by a fraternity of leering boys wearing their fathers' suits. They should not get a pass because they're "visionaries" — in any other context, this would be understood as garbage behavior from garbage people. "

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  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    also should we even talk about that New Yorker article about soylent?

    LUNATICS
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    In related news, we have two more women (not "white") joining our company, which already has quite a few women and we recently formed a diversity team to keep making progress there.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Wait, but including that Uber guy seemed kind of unfair... not sure of the context of that first tweet, but if someone asked him in a personal conversation if he was having luck with ladies and he answered "Uh yeah, it's great now." and then they quoted him "It's great now!" it makes him seem more douchey... just seems less solid than that ridiculous frat email from the Snapchat guy.

    And then they're like "Listen to how this grown man talks," but the clip they posted didn't seem very incriminating. Is it bad that he made an analogy to try and simplify a thing he wanted to explain?

    Just saying the other two dudes are very obviously way more douchey than Uber guy.
  • SchlabeSchlabe
    The complete lack of a shit they give for culture and fellow citizens make them all garbage people. Say what you will about their fathers' generation of CEOS, but they at least understood that their wealth obligated them to support culture (opera, the arts, etc...) you don't see anywhere near that level of support from Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc... Sure there are isolated incidents of giving, but nothing like the old companies. Fuck those bros.
  • 12341234
    When I get rich I'm not going to support culture. I'm just going to hire Zac P. to go around the world doing things he kind of doesn't like and writing about it. Sorry.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    or like Zuckerberg will pay a billion dollars for some city's educational system but he wants to be totally in charge of how things get run, and not listen to teachers, or parents, and it turns into a huge disaster that infuriates local communities, but he just does it again because he doesn't have to listen to anyone and he knows everything because he did it all himself and is a genius and nobody could possibly have expertise that he doesn't have. And like his schools are mostly based on making sure kids all have iPads and are using social media correctly (i.e., in the easiest-to-monetize way)

    - contemporary CEO philanthropy
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Seems weird that people should be obligated to fund opera...
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    OH BOY
    CAN OF WORMS

    but to paraphrase a tweet I read yesterday: rich people should pay taxes, instead of this noblesse oblige feudal bullshit

  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    The Uber guy is a wack libertarian. His Twitter avatar was Ayn Rand for a while.

    That's douchey enough for me. He also called Portland "socialist" and I'm like that's an insult? Anyway.

    Did you read the article about the Newark schools and how Zuck gave $100m and they turned most of them into charter schools and then closed a bunch of public high schools? Sounded like a shitshow.

    At least Ballmer knows to spend his billions on a pro sports franchise.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Those seem like better points against him that the stuff in that article.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    the article was just about the general vibe of "I know everything" bro-down bro-speak, rather than substantive criticisms. Wish they'd included the soylent dude, ultimate bro

    or like, the ultimate bro is the bro who no longer is even aware of humanity

    and yeah Alex that's what I was reffing with Zuckberg and schools. SO FUCKING DARK. And now, in classic tech-bro terms, he's DOING IT AGAIN with a different school district, having learned nothing, taken nothing away, accomplished nothing. Just like, if he's doing something it must be the right thing to do, because he is the best and smartest and maybe the only real person on earth

    gimme the snobby colonial bullshit of a JP Morgan or a Nelson Rockefeller any day, dear lord
  • distant_shoedistant_shoe
    just drink Ensure
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    Via YT: http://www.theawl.com/2014/06/marc-andreessen-and-the-inevitability-of-catastrophic-ideas

    Via al3x: https://al3x.net/2014/06/17/dear-marc-andreessen.html
  • kdawgkdawg
    Have you guys read the Astra Taylor book yet? It's called "THE PEOPLE'S PLATFORM".
  • MatthewMatthew
    @kdawg I read an excerpt. It is really good. Laura is reading it now.
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