Gates, Basos, Don't Give a Jolly Good Fuck About Anyone Else

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Bates: Gates, basos, do not give a jolly good fuck about anyone else. But it's like bates. Big gates didn't move until he was in prime time, eating shit day after day. It took that to move his hand. And now, course, like, that's is hole. Like now he's just a secular saint who see, ow, he left a ma kraso's board recently. He's that. That's his whole identity. I think what you discover is only a few of these super elite people really have like the give back instinct in a meaningful way. Some clearly do. These guys are in a tiny sphere of superly

Paris Marx is joined by Rob Larson to discuss how tech billionaires use philanthropy to massage their images, how they're creating a world that leaves nearly everyone else worse off, and how we need to respond with an online socialism to bring tech platforms under worker control.

Rob Larson is the author of “Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley” and an economics professor at Tacoma Community College. He also recently wrote about how billionaire-funded philanthropy is a public-relations scam for Jacobin and how the tech platforms are on their best behavior during COVID-19 for Current Affairs. Follow Rob on Twitter as @IronicProfessor.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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