The broligarchs are trying to have their way
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The broligarchs are trying to have their way
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#3Not a fan of how "bro" is now a slur for, "non-obese male who holds opinions with which I disagree"
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#4> Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump.
Is the opening sentence supposed to imply that Thiel (and Elon) are no longer outliers?
I thought 99% of the SV elite were still donating vast sums of money to the other party. Since, all of a sudden, everyone is concerned with billionaires why the obsession with Elon? It’s OK when big money donates to one side but not the other?
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#5> Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump. Is the opening sentence supposed to imply that Thiel (and Elon) are no longer outliers? I thought 99% of the SV elite were still donating vast sums of money to the other party. Since, all of a sudden, everyone is concerned with billionaires why the obsession with Elon? It’s…
>why the obsession with Elon
Elon is notorious for chasing the limelight and keeping it on him personally more so than the product. Most billionaires are content with doing this type of stuff fairly quietly, hence they attract less attention.
If you do shit for attention all the time you're probably going to get more of it, but it won't necessarily be flattering or directed in the way you want.
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#6> Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump. Is the opening sentence supposed to imply that Thiel (and Elon) are no longer outliers? I thought 99% of the SV elite were still donating vast sums of money to the other party. Since, all of a sudden, everyone is concerned with billionaires why the obsession with Elon? It’s…
To be honest my impression is that any "loud" VC is firmly in the Musk camp. And maybe just disagrees with Musk on a tactical level but generally would like for a lot of discussions to stop happening. There's probably a bit of a "intellectual dark web" silliness going on where they all think they are being oppressed for their opinions, despite probably being the silent... plurality I guess in their cohort.
Of course when they talk about this in public fora, many people outside their cohort[0] will react negatively to them.
[0]: glibly, outside their bubble.
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#7Eh not just the broligarchs, consulting giants want in on the action too - Will AI Eat Consulting? A Consultant’s Perspective (https://rimaiti.substack.com/p/will-ai-eat-consulting-a-cons...)
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#8> Eight years ago, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley for publicly supporting Donald Trump. Is the opening sentence supposed to imply that Thiel (and Elon) are no longer outliers? I thought 99% of the SV elite were still donating vast sums of money to the other party. Since, all of a sudden, everyone is concerned with billionaires why the obsession with Elon? It’s…
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#10What I find most frightening is the trick Musk played on regular investors via his pay package that is now worth tens of billions. Multiple times more than what Tesla earns per year.
No regular investor digs into this kind of company details. Nor do they understand the risk reward mechanics at play. And they shouldn't have to.
If the stock market gets played with unusual contracts like this one, regular investors will be cheated out of the value that is created by replacing more and more jobs by AI.