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THE TIME HAS COME
Rocket men Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos face off for the crown. We only wish the winner could be blasted into the sun as a reward!
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Here’s a reminder of how we got here, but it’s not a final without some contests for the competitors.
Now it’s time for an EMPIRE ASSESSMENT.
Both Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are corporate emperors in their own right, but the nature of their empires differs.
JEFF BEZOS: An internet bookstore was the basis of what’s become a vast empire dominating online commerce and extending into many domains, from grocery and health to film and even autonomous vehicles. From there, Bezos bought a major newspaper, created a space company, is beginning to send satellites into orbit, and has invested to try to extend human (billionaire) life.
@parismarx I appreciate the need to call out the specific acts of specific people.
But Bezos has not, to my knowledge, broken any laws.
Society declares what is good or bad by writing and enforcing laws. If society fails to legislate and police bad behaviour by its members, then society itself—and everyone in it—is collectively to blame,.
We need to explicate the specific harms the tech oligarchs have caused, by what means, and finally—crucially—translate that into new laws and constraints.
@brent @parismarx Ironically, the process of regulation is exactly what people like Thiel try to escape. It's not against the law to express ideas like this, or even trying to build utopias off the coast of Thailand.
Investors are always incentivized to be one step ahead of regulation by the nature of profit. It will always be a game of playing catch up.
I suspect it requires innovation in the ways we design and enact laws. Clever villains work by following the letter, and defying the spirit. If we could find a new way to write laws wherein the spirit and the letter coincided, it would make it much harder.
But it would also help greatly to close the countless loopholes which these villains sneak into the laws through regulatory capture and corruption. Aided and abetted by immoral politicians and a naive electorate.