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Nat Friedman, the CEO of GitHub, frequently comes across as an old-school tech-bro idiot. Microsoft (Github's owner) "embracing open source" is truly an exercise in deceptive bullshit.
Billionaires' wealth rises to $10.2 trillion amid Covid crisis
#Comment: Predictably the super-rich increased their already perverse fortunes by more than a quarter in 2020. At this point, the global kleptocrat class is truly above and beyond sanity. As their sense of omnipotence keeps growing exponentially, they can't seem to hear the sound of people around the world preparing the guillotines for them. Once the impact of corona fully unfolds (corona is a most convenient shield for the kleptocrats, allowing them to pretend that they did not cause this crisis through the usual means - greed and stupidity - but its all due to a evil virus), the anger in western economies will be uncontrollable, even for a modern cybernetic surveillance police state. A real shame, as a solution without violence is preferable for all.
“It's called 'the American Dream' 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.” - George Carlin
The early signs of incoming economic system changes
It's That Easy! - A Decade-by-Decade Guide to Saving Civilization
US has ‘lost its mind, morals and credibility’, China’s foreign minister tells Russian counterpart (SCMP)
America has pushed ‘egoism, unilateralism and bullying to the limit … and that’s not what a great power should be about’, Wang Yi tells Sergey Lavrov. US has ‘resorted to extreme measures and even created hotspots and confrontations in international relationships’, he says