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chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours agoAre you saying tech oligarchs don’t have as much desire or ability to control people’s lives and prevent threats to their power?
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
no. the desire is there. and in some cases the ability too.
but they are still muppets, controlled by people more powerful than they are. the fact that elon musk, the “richest man in the world” doesn’t get everything he wants should tell you something.
you need to change your mindset away from thinking people like elon musk are the top of the food chain. he’s fucking not.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
I hear what you’re saying, that at a certain level of wealth the power hierarchy becomes about seniority, and I don’t know that it’s wrong, but I’m not sure what reason there is to believe it either. Certainly people like elon musk are not all powerful, but what does that really say about the state of things when it would be hard to point to anyone who gets everything they want on a level beyond that?
taj@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There’s more to wealth than pure money. Musk has the money. What he doesn’t have is the generations of wealth, that came before. Some of that can’t be bought.
Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
i don’t get what your argument is. that we don’t objectively know who the people above elon musk are, so therefore they must not exist?
what DOES that say about the state of things? you tell me
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Not a lot, as far as I can tell? I’m more expressing doubt than making an argument. You are claiming you know they do exist and what defines them, but I don’t see reasons to be confident about that.