I think I'd say Thiel is worse than Musk. He supports anti-gay politicians while being gay himself. Tax cuts are more important than having the law treat people as human beings.
It's possible that Musk might fail to understand exactly how shitty he's being due to his autism, I'm pretty sure Thiel knows he's fucking people over and doesn't care. Also the whole bloodboy thing.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman for those who don’t want to click through.
And I have no idea which I would choose to face off from those four, let alone who would win.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 11 months ago
You could put them in a sack and hit the sack with a stick. You’d never hit the wrong guy.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like this idea much better than picking one of them as the worst person in tech for 2023. Can we do the stick beating instead?
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Could I? Yayyyy!
Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Theil wants a techno libertarian oligarchy with no regulations ala Blade Runner.
Musk wants the rich to escape to Mars while destroying earth and dooming the poor’s.
Bezos wants to send the poor’s into space along with heavy industry and turn earth into a rich person paradise ala Black Mirror “Fifteen Million Merits”.
Altman is just a shitty rich person in tech wasting precious resources to teach a computer to create porn. Becaue we all know that’s what 99% of people do and will use AI for. He’s also a prepper which means he’s a selfish cunt.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
I love your descriptions for all of them. If you have some free time would you mind writing it for everyone in the brackets?
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m shocked that Sam Altman won out over SBF
magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 11 months ago
No matter who wins we all lose. That’s kind of the point whenever these guys turn up.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, and sadly, said.
Altofaltception@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To make things slightly easier it’s Musk v Thiel and Bezos v Altman.
In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.
In the second matchup I would pick Bezos for the larger impact he has had on the world.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m with you on the second, but I would have a really hard time with the first because Musk is more overtly a piece of shit, but Thiel has had so much influence over the years, including elevating Elon Musk to the position where he is today. I guess if it’s the worst of 2023 and we’re restricting it solely to what we know they’ve said and done in 2023, it would be Musk. But I think overall, it is probably Thiel just because there wouldn’t be an Elon Musk anyone had heard about without Peter Thiel.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 months ago
But Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is in itself subservient to Theil’s overarching political goals. One has been in the limelight more, but the other has caused more harm overall.
overzeetop@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is the 2023 matchup. You don’t consider Jordan’s performance at UNC when determining their championship status this year. Heck, despite the past damage done, i don’t think. Bezos, for his 2023 tech fuckery, should have made it out of the first round.
By the same metric, Musk easily tops Thiel first 2023 and is the clear shoo-in as champion of the worst.
catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Why do people hate Altman? Genuinely OOTL.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He’s not really as bad as the other three, but he did take a nonprofit company and turn it into a multibillion dollar profit machine which has a massive carbon and fresh water footprint.
squiblet@kbin.social 11 months ago
His world coin project is one of the sketchiest. Paying people in poor countries to get scanned by this creepy orb thing? Odd.
His sister has also vociferously accused him of molesting her for a period of time when she was 4 and he was 13.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 months ago
What did Thiel do to make the internet hate him as much as the other three?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So, so, so many things.
Let’s start with him saying women getting the vote was bad for democracy and we can continue on from there.
huffpost.com/…/peter-thiel-women-democracy_n_5747…
sirdorius@programming.dev 11 months ago
It’s a full time job to answer completely, but from what I know he finances escape fantasies for the rich which they call seasteading. He calls it a libertarian ideal to create these new colonial city states, but what he means is liberty for his ilk from taxes, regulation and societal rules. Meanwhile his brainchild Palantir erodes the rights of the poor people who are left behind through surveillance, military technology and ICE funding. But this is all in line with his ideology, because apartheid “works” in South Africa according to Thiel
eran_morad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Musk.