Can't Tech Billionaires Just Make Their Money and Fuck Off?

I couldn’t imagine making millions of dollars every year, then choosing to spend my time stirring shit on social media. There was almost a pathos to their internet addiction. Log off, I thought. Just email each other.

Capitalism itself, at least as currently practiced in Silicon Valley, certainly supports widespread disregard for the vanquished. Poverty is largely considered the fault of the poor. As NYU business professor Scott Galloway has explained, “we’ve decided that capitalism means being loving and empathetic to corporations, and Darwinistic and harsh tow

What the technologists working at the very heart of the world’s biggest tech companies realize, however, is just how disempowering such individuation can be.

The tech platforms aren’t like the Medici in Florence, or those other rich patrons of the arts. They don’t want to find the next Michelangelo or Mozart. They want to create a world of junkies—because they will be the dealers.