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@jackhutton@mstdn.socialAstute takedown of the Silicon Valley villains in their own language. [The Bulwark, Substack]: Elon Musk Thinks He’s an Ayn Rand Hero. Nope: He’s One of Her Villains.
Recent years have revealed the Silicon Valley venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs who worship Rand to be racists, fraudsters, and looters. By Paul Crider, March 10, 2025
2. "[Ayn] Rand is best known—fairly—for defending the rich, but it may surprise casual readers to realize that in her novels money and wealth are never prized for their own sake. Rand’s heroes are creative geniuses who follow their own passions. Her protagonists suffer extended periods of avoidable poverty. The Fountainhead’s Howard Roark wouldn’t compromise his artistic integrity and so labored in a quarry until he could find a client who respected his work. ..
3. ".The heroes of Atlas Shrugged go on strike: They leave their various industrial empires to decay as an act of political dissidence against an oppressive regime. The money never mattered. Can you imagine Musk, Thiel, or Andreessen sacrificing their fortunes for a higher principle? Can you imagine them voluntarily enduring any hardship at all?"
3. "Our tech oligarchs are right to see themselves characters straight out of an Ayn Rand novel—they are the villains. In an ironic twist, our best hope against collapse lies not in striking industrialists, but in the quiet competence and steely integrity of career civil servants who refuse to budge."
@jackhutton Hell no. Trump wouldn’t give up his place in line at McDonald’s.
@jackhutton No. Not one of them.