WTF: Are Tech Moguls Trying To Hijack The Resistance?
Reprinted with permission from Alternet.
Ah, the dream of disruption. The allure of the platform. The magic of crowdsourcing. If only we could apply the technologies of Silicon Valley to the mess of Democratic Party politics, then the world would be a better place.
Such is the dream of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus. They are wealthy tech moguls, creators of LinkedIn, the professional networking platform, and Zynga, the social gaming company, respectively. With advance publicity from venture capital news feed Axios and tech news site Recode they have launched WTF, which doesnt stand for What the f**k, but rather Win the Future.
Adopting the ubiquitous online acronym is kind of cute, but kind of pointless too. It makes you wonder, WTFATGUT, as in, What the f**k are these guys up to?
If you look at the ethos of Silicon Valley and look at the ethos of our companies
its not about me, its not about Reid, its about us getting out of the way, Pincus told Recode. My only agenda is, I would like to see mainstream America more empowered to set an agenda.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/are-tech-moguls-hijack-the-resistance/
LisaM
(27,827 posts)Original aim: Get rid of California women politicians (e.g., Pelosi and Feinstein, Feinstein in particular because she was like HRC).
Next up: colleges should provide free engineering degrees. Not free liberal arts degrees, or nursing degrees, or even medical degrees. ENGINEERING degrees.
I. Can't. Even.
turbinetree
(24,713 posts)when I read that article that was my first impression, and remember all the talk on the news about the dem's, being upset with Pelosi, , all things lead back to this article
This is dangerous, to say the least, at least this message can get out there and fight this sh*t, it's a good start...
LisaM
(27,827 posts)I was reading another article about that just today (tangentially related to what I saw in the article, but I'll link it here).
https://medium.com/@zephoria/tech-culture-can-change-ad1ac3e795d5
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)lightning. They know nothing about "Winning the future" or anything else.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)Zero sense of The Social Contract
BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)The "men" are acting like men did 60 years ago when the world was their oyster. Just because these guys are in liberal states and young doesn't mean they aren't thinking like dinosaurs from the 1950's. They are almost as bad as Fux News. What does "Miss Lean In" think about this?