Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
It’s not just a figure of speech to say tech titans are indifferent to humanity. From Peter Thiel to Elon Musk, many are adherents of a worldview that envisions humans being replaced by digital post-humans and sees this as progress.
tech capitalists don't care about humans.
When your god is money, everything has a price tag. Including humans.
When Capitalism and free speech starts to take away their money, they run to the government and complain that Capitalism and free speech isn't so cool anymore.
A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into left-leaning advocacy group Media Matters.
Back in 2023, Media Matters published research showing ads from major companies had appeared alongside antisemitic and other offensive content on Elon Musk-owned X. When major advertisers subsequently pulled back from the platform, X sued Media Matters. It also sued advertisers and advertiser groups over what it claimed was a “systematic illegal boycott.”
No, they very much do care about humans...
...insofar as how can they extract the maximum use value out of them. Once that is done, the remaining husk can be cast aside, because it is no longer useful. This is pretty much how all early Capitalism worked, til the workers revolted and forced things like breaks, 10 hours (then 8) 6 days (then 5) on to the Capitalists. All the while they made the literal argument that it would not be profitable to use workers less than 14 hours a day and so on. Every single time a worker benefit comes up for discussion they use this argument. They're using it on the 15$ wage right now.
Capitalism then went on (in our day) to take credit for these reforms, that they fought, and are still fighting (gig work anyone ?) to this day. Anyone who says Capitalism isn't evil does not know what the fuck they are talking about. Capitalism is a little voice whispering in the mind of everyone with workable Capital "hey, if you hurt these people a little bit more, you'd be richer". It will always cause evil. Whenever it doesn't cause evil, that's because other forces have STOPPED it. Most would agree with the phrase "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" well, Capitalism does something similar. Sooner or later greed will get the most noble person to do the most heinous shit.
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