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Tech Billionaires Are Reshaping US Politics w/ Jacob Silverman

Tech Won't Save Us

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Silicon Valley and the Right-Wing Media Infrastructure

The libertarian phase of tech may have always been a little bit of red herring or sort of temperate, or not quite what we thought it was. There's a lot of money in working for the government. And given that we kind of work in a pay-to-play political society, it only follows that eventually they're gonna start paying politicians and try to start shaping the laws. I think there is a self-sustaining aspect to greed and being a billionaire, like, you want it all.

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