Not geniuses, they're sociopaths
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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To be fair, they’re not geniuses, they’re sociopaths, often with a hearty sprinkling of nepotism.
So of course they’re hoarding resources and pillaging. They don’t think the rest of us are actual people, and we only exist to be exploited.
They're actually stupid. Being born into that amount of wealth means one never actually deals with any material consequences and therefore never actually learns any lesson 'the hard way'.
The advertisement based economy is incredibly flawed and it irks me daily that this is our timeline.
Edit: Added link to op ed
Cyberpunk literature has been around for decades. They called it pretty accurately.
God they nailed it. Dystopian architecture crumbling for everyone else while billionaire CEOs live in giant mansions and party on yachts. While the working class is bombarded by sex and gambling ads.
Truly this is fucking hell.
I don’t think they called it. I think these techbros don’t have any ideas of their own so they’re just taking the worst ideas authors could come up with and calling it their own. None of their companieshave actually made anything new. They just throw a shiny coat of paint on what science fiction has warned us about.
“This story can’t stop me because ~~I can’t read~~ I’m too rich”
From the hit novel “don’t build the torment nexus?”
Slap an ad spot on the Nexus and 2 more on the Torment and watch those green candles.
“Surely they wouldn’t have written it if they don’t want us to build it.” -dumb rich fucks
"No I did not finish the book, or learn of the consequences of the torment nexus. It just sounded neat" -dumb rich fucks
all billionares are a policy failure. 60% of billionaire wealth comes from inheritance, monopolies, and cronyism.
They are not superheroes, benevolent gods that are here to help humanity, save that shit for the movies.
The only people I can forgive for becoming billionaires are people who inherit or win a big lottery prize.
But in both cases, if they remain billionaires, they're immoral and have no place in society.
Nah, this is the natural, logical outcome of capitalism – a profit based society will always reward sociopaths.
Captialism doesn't exist outside of the law. Yes, rules are easy to break, so to are fines easy to pay when they are mere slaps on the wrist to corporate giants, and yes sociopaths are rewarded. But that does not make sociopaths the logical outcome. Otherwise, all people supporting capitalism would be the same.
I say, excess creates the conditions for making amoral behaviour normal. Take away the excess, put a cap on how much one company can take home as profit, reward merits and hard work, but don't let wealth be hoarded to absurd levels, like NVIDIA becoming the worlds first $5 Trillion company.
I'll admit I'm pretty stupid, this is just my belief. I used to think capitalism was the problem, but really, humans are fallible, prone to vices, and maybe not able organize grand social order, imo.
Hey that's not exactly fair. They are also emitting all of the CO2 AND making this the fascism timeline!
And polluting the water, killing the trees and animals.
At least we have ad blockers...
That innovation makes them the smartest people possible in their view. And they did find an infinite money hack. All it costs is every fiber of their souls.
Your wage is paying for those ads.
They also made a digital corporate yes-man
The invention isn't yo sell ads, it's to offer a service to manipulate the mass. Making them buy things is just to extract a bit of money, making them vote a certain way, making them want to look a certain way, donate a certain way, hate a certain people, defend a certain way of life. All that is really what's making them rich with their innovation.
This sounds like whoever drives them to do this is interested in more than just money, so what is their motivation? If it were that simple, could we just infiltrate and replace this secret cabal, who would then drive the billionaires to do good?
so what is their motivation?
Power. Power over others, over everyone. Power to control the human world and twist it however they wish in the moment. Money is just a way to keep score, and a tool to manipulate the more menial lackies.
could we just infiltrate and replace this secret cabal, who would then drive the billionaires to do good?
No, because any attempt to do so would both be very obvious to others in the "cabal" and necessarily less ruthless, meaning it would soon be quashed. I put "cabal" in quotes because they are not some unified secret society, but a collection of individuals with the necessary monomaniacal drive for power and willingness to sacrifice everything to get it, all of whom are trying to manouver to stab the others in the back. That they occasionally seem to work together to keep those outside the group down is an artefact of them all trying to achieve the same thing in the same way, and using each other to get it, rather than genuine cooperation.
I rarely ever see ads. Adblock is wonderful. Zero sympathy.
The most successful aren't that much more intelligent than average. Their path to success isn't their unique intelligence.
Just think about all the good a really dedicated billionaire could do. Of course nearly all of them have "charities", but most of them are tax doges or just a really small fraction of their wealth goes into them or they are just there to paint them in a favorite light.
One of their favorite "cheats" is the following: donate all your wealth to a charity you created and have 100% control of. Charity is tax exempt and you simply control the wealth of the charity instead of your own - still doing everything you did before, but now without taxes and you can claim that you are a GREAT philanthropist.
You might have some duties as a charitable organization, but since you can choose where the charity is located that is probably not a problem.
Their innovation is that they have stolen all our data, yes.. But to fail to notice that they've used it to leverage influence and political favours to make themselves the most wealthy and powerful people on earth is blind.
Illegal cabs, illegal hotels, exploitative delivery services ! Great innovations definitely
And some of those don’t even make money.
It'e actually been so they can control the world. They just told you it was fot ads and you fell for it.
That and making our products break so we have to buy new ones, and making it illegal to unbreak them.
And buying up politicians in an ever increasingly overt and shameless way to weaponize the government against their opponents and to allow themselves make the data collection and ads more and more unavoidable and intrusive to everyone without legal challenge.
They're also throwing money at longevity research, which, in the unlikely event it pays off in their lifetime, they'll surely keep to themselves and dole out to those they deem worthy and for favors.