Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with Anand Giridharadas

Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by Apocryphon on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:59PM (#19292105)

To tie it back to the original post at the start of this thread, and to the TC article- then we wouldn't be talking about Silicon Valley. Or other places of great wealth.

I wasn't actually praising Steve Jobs. I was just pointing that at least he was a rich elite jerk who was open about being a jerk, unlike so many of our contemporary rich elite jerks who cover it up because they're afraid of others realizing their mission statements and grand visions are just excuses to amass wealth and power.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Inequality Machine: A Conversation with ... by state_less on Sunday March 03, 2019 @08:11AM (#19294279)

The real jerk move if you’re a billionaire driving a Nissan is to be silent when it comes to taxing wealth. Since you don’t appear to need the money (driving a Nissan), then dump it into laying fiber, building bridges, repairing roads and paying teachers, etc... Put your algorithms to work finding the greatest good, because one way or another you ought to be putting over half back into your community (taxes or charity). That would look more like real modesty to me

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