I must finish watching The Tech Billionaire Takeover myself.
The problem is I'm finding the tech billionaires themselves surprisingly boring.
They're just same old same old. Old wine in new bottles.
They want a world of non-democratic rule by an elite. But they assume, as such people always do, that THEY will be the nobility. There's no chance their Royal Specialnesses would be plebs.
They bang about "creating more freedom" but they mean freedom for themselves. (We plebs are permitted roles like faithful retainer or favoured hanger-on. So that's great for us, right?)
They just sound like C19th railway barons getting in a froth about their new-found wealth and power.
I've learned that whenever these folk say things like "radical" and "new", they almost always mean "just like the old times when power rested with People Like Us, ie rich, mostly male, and mostly white."
They also continually try to distract by waving around words like "technology" and "blockchain" – as though these are somehow the electorate or forms of governance in themselves. Rather than acknowledging that technologies are tools, which voters and governors can choose to use.
It was like listening to Uber insist in court that it isn't a ride-hailing company it's an app. And that therefore centuries' worth of legislation built up to protect both passengers and taxi drivers shouldn't apply to it. Courts across the world have gone, "Ha, nice try. No."
Of course the tech bros have long tried to focus on "the technology"... to deflect attention from the actions of the people behind the technology. Basically "A big app did it and ran away."
Sorry, I'm rambling on. These things have been on my mind for a while, as you can tell! 