Comment by matheusmoreira
3 days ago
> As a result, zoomers today meme about people like the unabomber making a good point.
I don't blame them.
As a nerd I think my spirit was broken by the absolute apathy of the normies. It was easy to ignore up until the early 2000s. It's become unbearable after social media and the iPhone reached the masses. It's not nerd stuff anymore. They influence every design now. They shape every decision. They are actively exploited at every turn. They are profiled, surveilled, controlled. It's gotten to the point even we nerds can't escape this fate no matter how much we want to. We try to tell them about it and we're made out to be tinfoil hat nutjobs. It's happening and they don't care.
It feels so hopeless and it's honestly very radicalizing. It breeds sociopathy. In the end I can't find the will to blame the billionaires either. I think I'd do the same if I could. Make billions and then just create a small paradise for me and all the people I care about. A subset of society where the principles I hold dear actually apply. Society is too fucked up and nobody cares, so I'll just create my own fiefdom.
On the plus side, llms do everything normies do for pennies on the dollar. We just need to outlast them as they fade into irrelevance.
Democracies make this impossible. Those people vote and they will bring into power politicians who will tax productive people to pay for their own survival.
My country is heading down this path as we speak. President literally gave a speech where he asked something like "who will ensure the survival of the millions of useless people created by technology?" They're obviously going to make us pay for it. The actual billionaires will simply leave before they get taxed, of course. Whoever stays gets to foot the bill.
It doesn't take billions to move one's household though. Sure, the billionaires will have advance warning and sweeter welcome packages wherever they end up going, but leaving a country where the tax rate is a poor value proposition doesn't exactly get harder if one is a net producer in the ideenrevolutionsfieber economy.
My friend, you are the surplus biomass being made redundant here.
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The problem is not that the normies don't care, the problem is a society that seems to need that to function well for everybody. The problem is the existence of government. Instead of a state we need a society based on private property, that would solve these problems. It is about who has the possibility to apply force and a state government enables that in a wrong way.
Abolish the state and just let greedy ultra billionaires go wild with private property and make the existing problems even worse. Yeah, I'll pass. The only reason things are still somewhat functional is because a few people within the state are pushing back against the ultra wealthy who are trying to dismantle the state so they can get exactly that fiefdom.
When companies can buy up entire cities you've basically just reinvented city states.
Ask Italy how that ends.
Rights only exist as they are enforced. Who would protect the property rights?