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"VC qanon" and the radicalization of the tech tycoons (www.anildash.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Key insight, even beyond tech but, I think, “successful” people across the board:

nobody becomes a billionaire by accident. You have to have wanted that level of power, control and wealth more than you wanted anything else … So you have a cohort that is, counterintutively, very easily manipulated … most are very easy to program by simply playing to their insecurity and desire for acknowledgement of exceptionalism