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I don’t like what Peter Thiel has invested in (Stripe and Palantir). Elon Musk is ceo of a few companies that actually try to create interesting stuff, it’s better than actually funding collection of data.
He’s actively platforming white supremacists, Nazis, and far right ideologues (people who have caused actual, tangible harm), normalizing their rhetoric and actions, and making it impossible for anyone on Xitter to push back or even report harassment from these kinds of hatemongers. He is literally bringing the worst parts of 4chan, Breitbart, Stormfront, etc to the mainstream and trying to make it seem normal.
He’s also a natalist and a longtermist, which are just euphamisms for eugenicists. He’s not trying to make anything better or interesting, he’s trying to create a white supremacist world where only white cishet christian men have status, where women are just vessels for procreation, and no one else has any place. The only reason he wants to go to Mars is so he can have a white ethnostate built on the backs of slavery, where no one can do anything to stop him.
I guess it’s just my interpretation of “Worse Person in Tech” are we voting them based off of their person or what they’re doing to the tech industry.
Did you see that John Oliver piece on Musk?
Why is this even a contest? We all know who the “winner” is going to be.
I don’t. Bezos and Musk are both terrible, even if I would say Bezos is worse. For just tech it would probably be Musk? But who knows, Altman and his shenanigans are also a frontrunner for me.
Just tech, clearly Musk. I’d argue Peter Thiel is the worst among the others for direct political influence, but that wasn’t the question and name recognition is everything.
I just know Thiel as an influence for major tech companies, and some of his opinions on eg monopolies. Outside of those companies I don’t know any example of political influence. Do you have some?
What has Marc Anderseen done to be on this list? I must be out of that loop.
He wrote a techno optimist manifesto that reads like a proto fascist manifesto. In fact, he cites Marinetti as an inspiration, who was founder of the futurist movement, and later author of the fascist manifesto and a close supporter of Mussolini, so no surprise I guess. He enforces ideas that this century is just a bad rerun of the previous.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-religion-of-techno-optimism
“After losing to Peter Thiel in last year’s contest, Elon Musk takes the title of WORST PERSON IN TECH 2023!” – With the vote split 84.1/15.9% over Jeff Bezos, and to no great surprise (except perhaps the margin). https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/111598332906577952
Undoubtedly going to be Elon Musk vs Jeff Bezos
I think Thiel is worse for the world. Elon musk is more show and shine - and crumbles spectacular anyway
Wait where’s mark zuckerberg
Lost to Peter Thiel.
That seems like one that would go down to the wire. Mark Zuckerberg essentially is responsible for genocide.
I vote whoever decided to hold the vote on Google Forms.
Exactly. Mastodon supports polls so what the heck?
Can’t even vote without a Google account.
Elon shouldn’t be in this chart, too easy to win, makes the championship not interesting.
Like if Vegeta super Saiyan participates in an high school karate tournament
@Moonrise2473 @sirdorius Well, Elon is evil by accident. Peter Thiel is evil by intention.
I dunno. Pretty sure Elon is evil intentionally, as well.
Elon shouldn’t be in this chart, too easy to win
One would think, but with both Thiel and Bezos in the competition this isn’t as cut-and-dry as you’d assume. Thiel especially is fucking evil, he’s way worse than Musk
I live in Washington State, home of Amazon, and id wager more here hate bezos than anybody else on this list