I’m sure it was fine to make these people in Silicon Valley the unquestioned new ruling elite of our society. No one voted on it, but democracy isn’t so much about voting as it is about having gay anal sex and fighting anti-Semitism.
We can trust these people with total control over our society. No problem.
Silicon Valley companies are loudly divided over whether politics belongs in the workplace. On Thursday, one of the largest providers of expense account software sent a plea to all of its customers urging them to vote for Joe Biden, injecting politics into 100,000 businesses that use Expensify Inc.’s tools.
The plan incited strong debate within the San Francisco-based company, and some employees disagreed with the gesture, said David Barrett, the chief executive officer. But he pressed ahead and sent the Biden email to all 10 million people who use Expensify software, he said.
“We needed to stand true for what we believe in and hope that most people agree with us,” Barrett said in an interview. “It’s not like we did this with a lot of enthusiasm. We did this out of a perceived necessity.”
In the email to customers, Barrett wrote, “Anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy.” If President Donald Trump were reelected, Barrett wrote, it would “damage our democracy to such an extent, I’m obligated on behalf of shareholders to take any action I can to avoid it.” Barrett suggested a Trump victory would stoke civil unrest. “Not many expense reports get filed during a civil war.” Technology news website Protocol earlier reported on the email.
Tech workers have made political activism a common part of office life in Silicon Valley over the last few years. But in recent weeks, a counter-movement has emerged from startup executives led by Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase Inc., which operates an online exchange for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Armstrong said last month that Coinbase employees would be barred from advocating for any causes or candidates and offered severance packages to those who refused. About 60 workers took the buyout.
Coinbase was one of the first companies to ban me, by the way.
I won’t mention the crypto exchanges that didn’t ban me, but it was basically most of them.
So it’s funny that Coinbase is the first to come out and be like, “okay, c’mon now.”
But it’s fine. I’m sure that after they banned me, when they got all these millions of requests to ban more people, they started to realize the gravity of the situation. You see, if you ban anyone for moral reasons, then it means that you implicitly support anyone you don’t ban, which means that you then have to be able to morally defend literally every single customer you have.
I told these companies this. I said: “Are you sure you can’t see where this road ends?” I actually literally talked to some of these people on the phone. I won’t say who. But others, I’m certain, showed my emails to the CEOs, who would have wanted to see them in the middle of that ban-fest madness in August, 2017. I told them all: “if you ban me, that means you are going to have to morally justify every single person you decide to not ban.”
I remember saying: “you do not have to be an expert in game theory to game this out.”
But yeah, Expensify is only doing what all the other companies are doing, just more obviously. All the other companies have gone all-in on political activism. They are all using all of the resources at their disposal to get Joe Biden elected. You all saw them block the New York Post article about Hunter’s laptop.
These people are engaged in a sustained psychological war against the American people.
How can you have this mix of capitalism and democracy that we’re told we have when all of the major capitalists are totally unregulated and also capable of using their massive wealth and power to manipulate elections?
Can you even imagine a potential system more corrupt than this? Like sit for a minute and say, “if I was a totally corrupt political organization, could I design a system more perfect than the one that exists right now?”
What you will find is this: no, this is the perfect system of corruption for corrupt politicians. It is literally impossible to even think up a theoretical model which is better for corruption to operate in.
You can have a totally unregulated economy or you can have universal suffrage democracy. Neither is really that good of an idea on its own, but either can exist on its own, probably. But you combine those two things together, and you get actually cartoonish corruption.
Exhibit A: America 2020.