Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Tech Bro Supervillains Confess World Takeover Plan" video.

I half agree, because I don't see the problem are people of immense wealth ITS HOW THEY GOT THAT WEALTH and then how they hang onto it. When you look at Theil, Yarvin Andreessen, Musk, Altman they are mostly people who got lucky with timing and have no grasp that they were just lucky. Sorry if this is a longer explanation but I have an example. I actually went to U. of Illinois where Andreessen went and finished my degree in aerospace just before he went there. So I know what the state of the computer systems were when he got there. The amount of money being pumped into that place on computing by the US government via agencies like DARPA was staggering. Tons of money went into the supercomputing centre. We also had one of the main cores of a system called Plato which was was (in a way) a forerunner of the internet. It was horrible use with everything in text. YES text, with NO pictures, NO videos, just straight ASCII text. To say it sucked does not do justice to how bad it was to use. In that space lots of people were working on ways to make systems like Plato useable by non-engineers. Andreessen and a guy named Eric Bina came up with a program called Mosaic. Basically they made Plato as easy to use as an Apple McIntosh. Their company became Netscape which they sold for a ton of money (see Wikipedia). And there's the problem Andreessen was just lucky to be at the right university at the right time with HEAPS of GOVERNMENT FUNDING. If Andreessen had been one of the elite programmers he would have been working on the Cray Supercomputers not Plato. So he wasn't an elite programmer but got insanely lucky. And that's my bit with these people. Most of them are just lucky and instead of helping other people get lucky they are instead trying to crush other innovations or absorb them into their mega-corps.
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