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Not only that: They rely on people pre-emptively obeying them before even being threatened. Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, all those guys, they know better. They're also doing fine money-wise. They had every option to just tell Trump to get fucked, and mess up their company if he wanted to make that decision. They wouldn't have been out on the street, whatever happened, and they would have had a chance to do something noble instead of just optimizing for the money function like a malfunctioning AI superintelligence.
One of the critical factors in fascists taking power is "obeying in advance." Because, yes, they can't be everywhere. Fuck that. I fully support this message.
Edit: Typo
You say that as if they're complying reluctantly instead of enthusiastically.
All the billionaire plutocrats are fucking GLEEFUL at what's happening. Every. Single. Fucking. One. is the enemy of the People.
They don’t seem at all reluctant, no. Why are you saying they’re gleeful, though? How do you know?
Because this makes them money. Either indirectly, through kickbacks, or through stripping of regulatory powers.
Not really. Big company incomes, along with pretty much any other economic metric you want to choose, very consistently do better under liberal government in the US. It is one of very few actual consistent and simple truths about economics and politics in the world. And Trump is infinitely worse than an average Republican. He’s likely to crash the entire economy, or worse.
https://www.epi.org/press/new-report-finds-that-the-economy-performs-better-under-democratic-presidential-administrations/
Oh, I don't disagree, but they definitely seem to be in a "rip the copper outta the walls and run" pattern of behavior right now. Quick Buck / pump'n'dump / whatever rather than a functioning economy.
Plus, when economies crash, rich people can just buy everything for pennies and sit on it.
"On Tyranny" covers that in the first chapter.
2 hour audiobook.
Well, you don't become a billionaire by doing the morally right thing, so it would have been a miracle.