• SitD@lemy.lol
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    billionaires and their super important opinions eh? having money is a personality trait apparently

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    “People behave themselves in a panopticon”-rich people

    Firstly no, people don’t. Second, they go crazy in one. And third, this basically breaks down the threads of both community and individualism to create a miserable nightmare

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      Breaking community and individualism is kinda a big thing billionaires want because that way people can’t organise to rise up against them.

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    billionaires who talk like this should immediately be committed. he’s clearly far gone, just fucking take him away.

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    Maybe billionaires should be filmed and streamed continuously, since their behavior has such a big impact on the world. If they don’t like it maybe we shouldn’t allow them to control such incredible assets. I’m sure billionaires have nothing sketchy to hide, right? What we will see is probably how they are hard working people who are not at all detached from normal folks. Right?

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    By “citizens” he means poor people, naturally, and by “best behaviour” he means obedience to authority.

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    Wait, isn’t this the father of Megan Ellison, the owner of Annapurna Interactive? The woman who just made her entire team so mad they quit.

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    And I guarantee that billionaire Larry Ellison blithely believes that he’ll be exempt - that all of this surveillance will just be used against the little people. And he’s almost certainly right.

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      He will be exempt. The areas that he lives in and the things that he does will not be tagged as “criminal” on the data system that he has the contract to administer.

      That’s always how these systems work. You don’t worry about getting dragged into the Saudi Consulate and bonesawed to death by intelligence officers when you’re MBS, because you’re the boss and the guy getting bonesawed is your employee.

      For the same reason, you don’t worry about getting spied on when you’re the one who owns and operates the big surveillance infrastructure because it exists for your benefit.

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        Just look at Musk to see someone whose wealth entirely excuses his behavior. It ain’t hypothetical in the slightest.