Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
by gorwell on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:33PM
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He's perfectly self aware that he has rejected his own class. It's weird that people think that's impossible or something and insist that he must be one in the same.
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I am genuinely not sure if this is a play on the “George Orwell” username? If not… what’s your evidence?
This isn't it, he was never part of the class in the first place and he does not share its insular self-serving worldview.
He didn't go to Harvard, he went to Illinois. He built his own tech firm when taking that path wasn't even a thing for people to do, he did not inherit banking interests.
It's ironic he talks about markets yet Netscape came from Mosaic, developed at a public university (Urbana-Champaign in Illinois) without market forces. HTML and HTTP developed at CERN, another public institution.
In the usual pattern, there's something mysterious and totally unexplainable happening where all the systems have broken down somewhere between when Person X was a beneficiary of the system and when Person X is expected to be a benefactor to the system.
Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:20AM
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> he was never part of the class in the first place and he does not share its insular self-serving worldview
I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over his 4,800-square-foot Tuscan-style Atherton mansion and 13-structure Malibu compound [1].
I went to public university. I then made some money. Where you come from doesn't determine where you end up. But it can leave chips on your shoulders if you never revisit your own past critically.
[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/b...