It seems, sadly, that the techbros aren't trying to change the world for must of us. Perhaps change it for themselves, certainly prevent their pile from being reduced. More "F*ck you, I got mine!" I guess.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products and Spineless Capitulation
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#12There is a lot to criticize about TC, but if you think the Apple Silicon move is dull (not in terms of technology, but what experiences it opens), you are incredibly stupid and shortsighted.
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#13It seems, sadly, that the techbros aren't trying to change the world for must of us. Perhaps change it for themselves, certainly prevent their pile from being reduced. More "F*ck you, I got mine!" I guess.
tale as old as time. cis gay white men joining the Log Cabin and advocating against trans rights as soon as they taste power is another example
it reminds me of playground socialization. the cool kids bully you for a long time and so you socialize with the outcasts. one day you get invited into the cool crowd, minimally welcomed with some reservations, and suddenly you're bullying the outcasts you used to associate with even harder than the cool kids ever did because you think it'll help elevate your status with your new in-group
it's really a gross, childish thing but so so common to people who come into power after having it withheld for so long, at least in some Western societies
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#14Great article but I think the better one is linked at the bottom of the page. I'll paste it here for convenience:
https://karlbode.com/the-hulk-hates-fascist-media-consolidat...
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#15"presumably to be replaced with younger white men similarly incapable of standing up to fascism"
Wow. Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Micron, Nvidia all have Asian men incapable of standing up to fascism.
White CEOs appear to be the minority in tech companies.
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#16> Our dull corporate press is unsurprisingly obsessed with wealth. If you make large gobs of money you are inherently very smart, skilled, and good. Absolutely everything else is a pesky afterthought. It's why Elon Musk, an unremarkable bigot cosplaying as a supergenius engineer, so easily enamoured a shaky U.S. media for the fifteen year run up to his recreational ketamine-fueled nazi ego implosion.
What a fantastic piece of writing. I reread this five times.
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#17It seems, sadly, that the techbros aren't trying to change the world for must of us. Perhaps change it for themselves, certainly prevent their pile from being reduced. More "F*ck you, I got mine!" I guess.
tale as old as time. cis gay white men joining the Log Cabin and advocating against trans rights as soon as they taste power is another example it reminds me of playground socialization. the cool kids bully you for a long time and so you socialize with the outcasts. one day you get invited into the cool crowd, minimally welcomed with some reservations, and suddenly you're bullying the outcasts you used to associate w…
Have you ever wondered how you sound to other people?
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#18I would point out that the Apple Watch and AirPods are both great rather than dull products, but I strongly suspect the author here was not making a good faith attempt to analyze Tim Cook's product legacy.
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#19"presumably to be replaced with younger white men similarly incapable of standing up to fascism" Wow. Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Micron, Nvidia all have Asian men incapable of standing up to fascism. White CEOs appear to be the minority in tech companies.
Fascism is literally the union of corporations and the state. So why would a CEO stand up against it?
Only the people will stand up against fascism, in a mass movement for freedom and democracy.
It's not about their race. Plenty of Asian people in Silicon Valley. Or even their personal beliefs. It's about the interests of shareholders, which they have to (by law!) satify. That means making profit.
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#20I kind of want to flag this because it reads like dumb rage bait, but I'll comment instead.
> While Apple certainly made boatloads of money during Cook's tenure, the company also steadily morphed into something unthinkable to company founders Jobs and Steve Wozniak: it became not just increasingly unethical...
If you think Tim Cook is/was less ethical than Steve Jobs of all people, my only rational conclusion is that you don't know Jobs' history or you're an idiot.