Bill Gates/George Soros appreciation thread

[Clinamenic]

But fret not, for I toil in the workshop.

 

[Clinamenic]

I just need to procure several orders of magnitude more funds, thats all.

 

[luka]

Our billionaires today are suboptimal, from what I gather. Savvy, but insufficient in channeling the capitalist entelechy of extropy.

theyre not even remotely independent

 

[Clinamenic]

Well I hardly know them, but what do you mean independent?

 

[Clinamenic]

You mean too enmeshed in the web of shareholders to exercise pure volition? Okay, sure.

 

[Clinamenic]

Again I can hardly confirm or deny. Could be some real visionaries who just keep out of public attention.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Fuck's sake guys, this was intended as a troll thread, pure and simple! Stop ruining it with actual discussion!

 

[IdleRich]

Just saw someone on twitter wondering if UFOs are billionaires from other planets.

 

[luka]

You mean too enmeshed in the web of shareholders to exercise pure volition? Okay, sure.

no i dont mean this i mean emeshed in the security state

 

[Clinamenic]

The security state?

 

[Clinamenic]

Well yeah force isn't on their side, as I doubt the formation of a private army would go unnoticed.

 

[Clinamenic]

But there seem to be ways around the force asymmetry, if force is what you mean by security state.

 

[luka]

us power is completely emeshed with thier corporations

 

[Clinamenic]

Just the right kind of leverage.

 

[Clinamenic]

I would be inclined to agree, both hard and soft power. Don't have any data at hand though.

 

[luka]

billionarires done reach escape velocity, not in the US at any rate

 

[Clinamenic]

I'm afraid I don't understand the first part of that statement. Done reach?

 

[Clinamenic]

Like they done reached it, or they don't reach it? The latter seems implied by the second half of your statement.

 

[luka]

they dont get free. they are emeshed in and in hock to the state and its aims

 

[Clinamenic]

That seems to be the inverse of the popular paranoia. In any case, I think there are avenues for major change that the state doesn't know about it, unless the US intelligence community includes some task force of visionary digital native programmers.