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What Do the Oligachs Have in Mind For Us?
Quilette.com ^ | June 27th, 2019 | Joel Kotkin

Posted on 06/29/2019 6:10:50 PM PDT by gaijin

The recent movement to investigate, and even break up, the current tech oligarchy has gained support on both sides of the Atlantic, and even leapt across the gaping divide in American politics. The immediate concerns relate to such things as the control of key markets by one or two firms, the huge concentration of wealth accruing to the tech elite and, increasingly, the oligarchy’s control over and manipulation of information pipelines.

What has not been discussed nearly as much is the end game of the oligarchs. What kind of world do they have in mind for us?

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For an industry once known for competition, the level of concentration is remarkable. Google controls nearly 90 percent of search advertising, Facebook almost 80 percent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about 75 percent of US e-book sales, and, perhaps most importantly, nearly 40 percent of the world’s “cloud business.” Together, Google and Apple control more than 95 percent of operating software for mobile devices, while Microsoft still accounts for more than 80 percent of the software that runs personal computers around the world.

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The oligarchs are creating a “a scientific caste system,” not dissimilar to that outlined in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian 1932 novel, Brave New World. Unlike the former masters of the industrial age, they have little use for the labor of middle- and working-class people—they need only their data.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook; silicon; social; tech
Andy Ngo is one of Quilette's writers.

Today he was badly beaten by Portland AntiFa simply for being conservative and being present at one of their protests.

He almost lost one of his eyes and he was showered with "a milkshake" which the local cops say turned out to be quick-drying cement.

I first posted a link to this piece in another thread.

Another freeper read the link and suggested I post the piece as it's own thread.

1 posted on 06/29/2019 6:10:50 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

The Georgia Guide stones might have a clue. Or Coudenhove-Kalergi, or Cloward-Piven.


2 posted on 06/29/2019 6:15:17 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: gaijin

Is there a technology ping list?


3 posted on 06/29/2019 6:18:13 PM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: gaijin


4 posted on 06/29/2019 6:20:36 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: mumblypeg
Is there a technology ping list?

There really, REALLY should be one.

5 posted on 06/29/2019 6:24:40 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: dljordan

I was just going to say that.

Their plan is to improve the human race by eliminating ethnicity, so there is only one human race, and then they will improve the overall intelligence and physicality by sterilizing anybody below the arbitrary lines.


6 posted on 06/29/2019 6:25:15 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: gaijin

What do they have in mind?

Most of us dead, the rest in chains.

Google is literally the incarnation of the Ministry of Truth.


7 posted on 06/29/2019 6:30:06 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Jonty30
Their plan is to improve the human race by eliminating ethnicity, so there is only one human race,

Very, very close:

The plan is to use diversity-centric co-mixing anywhere there has been in-groups of people able to pose competition to the leadership by that small and highly educated group allllways talking about diversity while acting as a tribe.

That small in-group lives all over the world, usually in large cities. It always stresses open borders, while maintaining for part of itself one of the biggest wall networks on Earth today.

And in THAT place there will be the headquarters of the future One World Government.

In that country --which will then be much bigger and will play host to a much higher percent of it's people-- there will be a world court similar to The Hague. In that court, they that all the disputes previously described as international will be mediated and resolved.

Of course, this Heaven On Earth thinking holds that war will then be impossible.

Those people intend to rule over all others in safety, plenty and perpetuity, all while the rest of the chaotic outside world wonders what happens, drools and wanders to factory assembly stations and picking fields:

Like pack animals.

It will be a violent mix of Sao Paolo, China, Africa, California and Malmo.

8 posted on 06/29/2019 6:37:25 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: DuncanWaring

Josef Stalin would be proud.


9 posted on 06/29/2019 6:41:49 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: DuncanWaring
What do they have in mind?

Most of us dead, the rest in chains.

YES.

10 posted on 06/29/2019 6:57:04 PM PDT by gaijin
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The Lear jet leftists expect to form the core of the global Inner Party. There they will continue to enjoy the best healthcare, the finest foods and the most advanced gadgets the world has to offer, all while deciding your fate for you.

If you work very hard and show them your unwavering loyalty you may be permitted to join the global Outer Party. You will be allowed occasional servings of meat and air conditioning on a rationed basis.

The rest of us will eat insects and swelter for the good of the planet


11 posted on 06/29/2019 7:14:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: gaijin

It’s not just on the national level. In all of the small towns, an oligarchy runs things and they mean business. This is all very real.


12 posted on 06/29/2019 7:58:31 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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6 billion less people or so.

Not them of course.

Freegards


13 posted on 06/29/2019 8:00:06 PM PDT by Ransomed
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What do they have in mind for us? More non western immigrants from China and India.


14 posted on 06/29/2019 8:05:19 PM PDT by Clemenza (Lurking)
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To: DuncanWaring

Google = 666


15 posted on 06/29/2019 8:30:39 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Jonty30

My Genetics classmates were arguing for compulsory sterilization of the genetically unfit circa 1978.


16 posted on 06/29/2019 9:27:26 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: gaijin

I get that is what we will become. But, as I understand it, they also intend to use genetic markings. Everybody below the minimal will get societal support, in exchange for sterilization. They will move the minimal up a notch at a time.


17 posted on 06/29/2019 9:55:06 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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baloney.....they want chaos and no restraints on human behavior which produces the chaos....

with chaos you can have a police state....eliminate your competition and your enemies.....

when we are in complete chaos, the elite rich will roll in their wealth enjoying all or our earths treasures while the serfs slave away for scraps....

18 posted on 06/29/2019 10:02:07 PM PDT by cherry
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To: gaijin

I hope he heals up well. As to what this new world will look like, I think something like the Hunger Games. If you are not elites you know where you’ll live.


19 posted on 06/30/2019 8:28:05 AM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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