A cadre of anarcho-capitalist plutocrats want to remake society through the power of monopoly and a “free market” rigged in their favor.
Taplin is more politically liberal than I am, but his warnings resonate with my center-right convictions.The utopian dream of spending your waking life in a metaverse might make it easier for introverts. But it would also mean removing many of the things that we know give humans joy, such as meaningful work, friendships, community, and nature....Thiel believes that ‘Competition is for losers.’ The Technocrats don’t want a free market. They want a rigged market.
In some ways, these tech billionaires are already starting to supplant our government, partly because our government has retreated from big projects like space. Consider, for example,As Jim Bridenstine, former NASA administrator and GOP congressman from Oklahoma, told Farrow, “There is only one thing worse than a government monopoly. And that is a private monopoly that the government is dependent on. I do worry that we have put all of our eggs into one basket, and it’s the SpaceX basket.”.
Maybe it won’t come to that. While Taplin lists an assortment of public policy reforms to prevent the culmination of this brave new world, he also advises individuals who wants to join the “resistance” to 1) refuse to buy a VR headset for their kids; 2) refuse to buy cryptocurrency or NFTs; 3) refuse to buy “life-extension therapies”; and 4) refuse to allow their tax dollars to “finance a Mars space colony.
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