E2: Balaji Srinivasan on His Past and Future predictions, the Future of the Left and Right, and Why Tech Can’t Escape Politics
"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg
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The Rise of the Base Billionaire
Eric Liu: This idea of the base billionaire, you know, we've seen a lot of billionaires kind of follow in this like Davos elite class. Do you think Elon and Teal will always be like the just the very small cap? Well, yes. I mean, but the thing is that here's the important thing. These people may be seen as being on the right in the US, but they're in the left in China. Which means they are in the global center because Woke America is a farthest left entity in the world and communist China is the farthest right country in the world. You have the pseudonymous economy, right? You have global meritocracy.
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