“The CEOs don’t like the world they’ve helped create.”

Elon Musk and Joe Lonsdale are doing their best to make sure “the high-tech future will have to be built in a way that blends church, state and market, to the benefit of those most able to seize public resources and turn them to private profit.” The extractive world of today’s technology — harvesting your data and attention, among other things — has created the Texan Ideology. [Link: The Texan Ideology | https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-texan-ideology-turner | The Baffler]

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