"The Pipeline Made Visible

Unlike old #authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible.
It’s a self-reinforcing loop:
#Ideology fuels venture capital → #capital captures the state → #thestate feeds the same private systems that built it. A new model of power — #privatizedsovereignty."
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The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

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The IT crowd is largely either apolitical and/or labour history ignorant.
With a few Ted Kaczynskis thrown in for flavour.

The creation of a glut of trained practitioners in the #infosec field was a cynical #capital play to lower your #wages.

They needed more muscle to guard their loot and wanted it cheap.