[palmotea]

> Fascinating to see how many tech people, as soon as they get rich, turn to extreme. Name them all - they mostly all are very active on X, and each new tweet pushes the limits of what was previously deemed unacceptable.

They have the money and power, but tech people in particualr lack the social graces and awareness that previous generations of rich people needed to operate. They think very highly of themselves, but all that "intelligence" doesn't prevent them from acting stupidly.

[dd8601fn]

The old timey ones were morons in every kind of human way, too. We know what dumb shit they thought and said.

They just didn’t all have instantaneous global reach while sitting on the crapper, like Henry Ford with a Twitter account.

Even the Hearst type ones usually had time and human machinery between the formation of idiotic notions and it reaching other people.

[palmotea]

> The old timey ones were morons in every kind of human way, too. We know what dumb shit they thought and said.

I'm not saying they were great. I'm just saying they probably spent more of their formative years interacting with real people than messing around with machines, so the tech lords are probably even worse.