Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’
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Says a wealth-hoarding, mass carbon-polluting asshole. His ethics and those of everyday people are vastly vastly different due to his inability to pay taxes.
*You best start believing in Technofeudalist societies, you're in one. *
Inability?
Larry Ellison pays less taxes than you because he is a parasite on society and we let him steal from us.
Yeah, right. His inability is a choice, an ethical one.
How about the billionaires? Any rules for them?
lol, no.
If the billionaires want the Chinese model for us, it's only fair they fall under that same model.
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.
If we can't have a real democracy with real freedom I at least want blood of vengeance to bathe in from time to time.
Mr. Ed Snowden would like a word.
Fed into woodchippers like they deserve.
This is a reminder post. Remember when tech billionaire Larry Ellison said this?
On the 17th of September last year?
Oracle is one of the worst companies in history and it's products are ass.
ORACLE: One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
Hey man, nice shot.
McNulty!
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.
I predict him... mistaken.
LOL! So republicans will stop committing crimes? Can't wait to see your son destroy CBS/Paramount.
Why do billionaires always look like creepy Madame Tussauds wax statues?
while billionaires keep raping kids? yea no, go fuck yourself. this sounds like ravings of a person afraid of losing his possessions and life.
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.
A tzompantli of rich skulls is the dream! Would go great with our loofa vines!
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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Someone should Luigi this fuckwit
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.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Must be nice to say from your private Hawaiian island
Anyone who owns an island is a pedophile, no exceptions.
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?
No. Laws don’t apply to oligarchs.
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)
keep pushing Larry, we all dare you
The problem is that they do keep pushing. And getting away with it.
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 "get to do" help contribute to the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" mentality. Take that away and there's going to be significantly less tolerance for corruption.
And the elites will create a system where the only way to vote is to spill blood.
Isn't that literally the premise of 1984?
lol is this guy seriously discounting that people, fully non-anonymous and out in the public view, can be assholes?
Also discounting what the rest of our definitions of assholes are.
Or that the current administration is holding up and defending a child rapist? Lmao.
Melt face son and a bitch. You can't take that wealth with you scumbag.
Like hell I will. I’ll be free until the clankers come for me
Not that he had anything to do with it or anything.
Suck my best behaving ball
I'll throw in a low hanging hairy one as well.
Like the Victorian era?
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
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.
I think you're probably imagining life in high society after watching everything Julian Fellowes has written.
Victorian prudishness is somewhat a myth. Not like completely, ofc, but way overblown.
If you'd make your argument just for Victorian high society, I might be inclined to agree. If you make it also for the middle classes, I'll be skeptical. And if you argue that the working classes would've all shared in those strict morals, then I'll disagree.
Although I'd like to point out that those Victorian high society or upper-middle class people, especially women, would've been de facto under surveillance most of the time, constantly having other people or at least servants around watching them.
But like we know from Downton Abbbey and the Gilded Age etc, they found ways around it as well. To answer your question about breaking the law or being embarrassed, being embarrassed would be why getting in trouble with the law would be troublesome and being embarrassed might mean being thrown out of society, which would be way worse than having to pay some fines.
Ooh I think there's a new gilded age episode today btw
Lots of words based on current tv culture. I don't watch the shows you are getting your information from. You may be right though. Human nature has been the same forever but there are pockets of collected, contrived, and derived behaviour, hither and yon, throughout history. Look at the USA today as a recent example that takes place in the television age (so you should be aware of that at least). I hope you enjoy your television episode you are excited about. Don't make assumptions about me and what I watch. It makes you seem stupider than your fancy words imply. You seem like you are talking down to me in your answer so in the best historical context I can muster I would say...fuck off you arrogant piece of smugness. That took a turn, didn't it?
Yeah I don't get my information from TV-shows, you shouldn't do that kid. I get my information from actual sources so I can spot anachronisms in tv-shows. Now that you'd understand since half the vocabulary went over your head by your own admission despite "the Gilded Age" being a literal and actual period of history.
I don't have a TV and I would never put some reality TV garbage in it, which you're clearly addicted to.
Ooh, babby a lil' mad that I pointed out how little they know? :(
You guys who deny you watch television but constantly reference it are a dime a dozen. I think I heard that screed you wrote on an old "Fridays" skit. Try an original thought once in a while and show some authenticity. Ooohhh....I'm so mad and toddlerish right now! My "fuck off" still stands though. Bye sweetie.
I reference shows which I watch.
I haven't had a broadcast TV in my apartment for like 15-20 years, got tired of the ads and never went back.
I download shows I choose to watch, to watch when I so choose.
You really thought you had a gotcha there, didn't'ya?
I've no idea what this means. Are you having a stroke? Should I alert the authorities?