Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Says a wealth-hoarding, mass carbon-polluting asshole.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Inability?

    Larry Ellison pays less taxes than you because he is a parasite on society and we let him steal from us.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, right. His inability is a choice, an ethical one.

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• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How about the billionaires? Any rules for them?

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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lol, no.

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  • jonne@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If the billionaires want the Chinese model for us, it’s only fair they fall under that same model.

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    • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You know what? Seeing as how we’re getting it anyway whether we like it or not, I think I’d voluntarily take the surveillance state and censorship if it comes with rich people getting absolutely stomped by the government when they get out of line.

      Maybe we can adopt the Vietnamese model where that billionaire either pays back $9 billion of embezzled funds or gets executed.

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    • Subdivide6857@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mr. Ed Snowden would like a word.

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  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fed into woodchippers like they deserve.

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• return2ozma@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a reminder post. Remember when tech billionaire Larry Ellison said this?

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  • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On the 17th of September last year?

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• mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oracle is one of the worst companies in history and it’s products are ass.

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• Rubisco@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey man, nice shot.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    McNulty!

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• _core@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He says that the police will be under constant surveillance. They already are and they still get away with crimes. Unless being a criminal is a cops best behaviour.

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I predict him… mistaken.

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• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ORACLE: One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why do billionaires always look like creepy Madame Tussauds wax statues?

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  • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He’s literally 80 years old. You can only do so much to hide your age before you start looking absurd.

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  while billionaires keep raping kids? yea no, go fuck yourself.

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• exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sci-Fi Author George Orwell In my book I invented the Torment Nexus telescreen as a cautionary tale

  Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus telescreen from classic sci-fi dystopian novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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• ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Someone should put a bullet in this fuckwit

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• kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What a coinkidink!

  I just predicted this morning that the way things are going his and his billionaire friend’s heads will be on pikes before the end of the decade

  It will be declared an international monument that will be visited by schools for decades to come to learn about the importance of regular class wars to keep the parasites in check in a society.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A tzompantli of rich skulls is my dream!

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No spoilers, but I was expecting a bit more from the movie. I wasn’t disappointed, but I was expecting more. Although apparently it’s the first part of a trilogy so I’ll wait and see.

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• EntropyFlux@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Golly, sounds like it’s time to watch Larry Ellison a lot closer too.

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• chris@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can we have a crowd-sourced bounty system for billionaires? The more billions they have the higher the bounty. I think it would be a good investment of public funds and benefit mankind greatly.

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  • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Be the change you want to see in the world.

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• capsdroopy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Truly nothing like Big Brother telling you he’s gonna big brother you. And of course don’t forget that those in power will never be subjected to this, it’s only for the little peasants in case they may decide to not fully conform to their ideal society (wageslaving to make the rich richer until you drop dead)

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• Album@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Must be nice to say from your private Hawaiian island

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  • tane69@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Anyone who owns an island is a pedophile, no exceptions.

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• mhague@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The 0.1% are like turbo hedonists. If they beat the population into being severe ascetics then the ones who stick out will be: elites, politicians, authorities, politicians, suck-ups, spoiled heirs, politicians, etc.

  I think all the little things people do help contribute to the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” mentality. Take that away and there’s going to be significantly less tolerance for corruption.

  And they’ll create a system where the only way to vote is to spill blood.

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• einlander@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does he count as a citizen? Will he be surveilled also to keep him in line? Will it force them to be kind to their employees and not cheat them?

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No. Laws don’t apply to oligarchs.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  keep pushing Larry, we all dare you

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  • TheFermentalist@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The problem is that they do keep pushing. And getting away with it.

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• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t that literally the premise of 1984?

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• appropriateghost@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lol is this guy seriously discounting that people, fully non-anonymous and out in the public view, can be assholes?

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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also discounting what the rest of our definitions of assholes are.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or that the current administration is holding up and defending a child rapist? Lmao.

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• Kurious84@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Melt face son and a bitch. You can’t take that wealth with you scumbag.

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• shaggyb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Suck my best behaving ball

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  • Kurious84@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll throw in a low hanging hairy one as well.

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• shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Like hell I will. I’ll be free until the clankers come for me

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• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not that he had anything to do with it or anything.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Like the Victorian era?

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How was the Victorian era a surveillance state? Getting away with murder was basically a sure thing unless you were literally caught while sticking a knife into someone in broad daylight.

    Idk what you’re smoking but can I have some as well

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    • melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was relating “best behaviour” to the strict moral standards of the Victorian era. Is the surveillance related to breaking the law or catching you in an embarrassing situation? If it’s the second case then we’ll all surely be vexed.

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