It never ceases to amaze me how today's techbros vision of the future they want defaults to fully automated leopard-face-chomping neo-feudalism rather than fully automated luxury gay space communism

[kerravonsen@mastodon.au]

@cdamian @cstross EXACTLY.
You only get filthy rich if you love money more than people, and, well, that's a pretty good measurement of Evilness.

[highlandlawyer@mastodon.social]

@grmon @cstross

[nicovel0@mastodon.social]

@cstross Musk thinks he cosplays the Federation, when in fact he’s a conservative Ferengi

[cadbury_moose@wandering.shop]

@grmon @cstross

Indeed. I miss Iain.

3:O((>

...and all the Culture books are in boxes ...somewhere. 3:O(((>

[twoclownseating@beige.party]

@cstross

Less face eating, more ass eating.

[cora@hachyderm.io]

@cstross it may be the cynic in me, and it may be influenced by my recent three-week binge of all of Game of Thrones, it having worked in SV for a quarter of a century my rear view impression is that it’s always been feudalistic at the top.

SV has low-key selected for openness to self-abasement as a career path for decades, and it’s hard not to look at photos of the most elite mingling with politicos over the past few years and not see a hierarchy of courtiers finally relieved of the constraints of performative conscience.

[poetaster@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cstross yeah, my antidote currently, Ian M. Banks Culture Series....

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@bjn @cstross
And those are precisely the people who excel in a capitalist society. It’s literally the opposite of meritocracy.

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@cstross

I think it's a lot of selection bias. Those who don't want neo feudalism are also those who retired once they hit a reasonable financial goal and everyone left at the top is a weird money hoarder

[rycochet@furs.social]

@cstross The only parts of Star Trek they like are the parts where everything has gone wrong and people shoot at oneanother, things that happen as the last resort.