Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[BigMoaner]

Naomi Klein wrote a short book about ongoing Puerto Rico buy out to create a tech bro parastate
....it's very real this stuff

The Battle For Paradise

Haymarket Books: books for changing the world.

www.haymarketbooks.org

It’s in almost in everything we touch. We are deep in the belly of the tech revolution

 

[tommers]

Added to that, the Hayekian strain of neoliberalism is not that far from fascism anyway. See Hayek’s espousal of the end of liberal democracy in favour of an all powerful council/junta/oligarchy of brilliant magnates and entrepreneurs…

Quite literally the last people that should be in charge of anything except an early stage fintech startup or something.

 

[kabbes]

Hayek is fascinating. He literally wrote the book (“The Sensory Order”) on embodied psychology — a revolutionary (and quite correct) challenge to Cartesian dualism, which locates cognition as being the result of modal sensory interpretation. This means there is no such thing as objective, context-free information, only the interpretation of the world for a purpose. And then, having given the world this jewel of radical psychology, he decided he hated the implications of it for the social order and so spent the rest of his life devoted to building an economics that denied the very thing he had worked so hard to establish — an economics entirely built on the reification of “information” as a disembodied and contextless commodity, whose exchange should replace all notions of “social justice” as the way to organise society. Hayek the psychologist should have hated Hayek the economist! But the latter was explicitly ideological in his view of “social justice” as being primitive and tribal thinking.