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The new Darth Vader: how tech executives became the film villains of our age
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/09/the-new-darth-vader-how-tech-execs-became-the-film-villains-of-our-ageReplying to @Orwi@programming.dev
Polls show an increasing support for political violence. In my opinion, this is because we are living in an oligarchy and there are no other effective modes of change.
Look at the Paramount-Warner merger. The laws we elected lawmakers to enact and the state to enforce are not being enforced. We voted for the laws. We voted for the sherriff. Yet the will of the people is not being enforced.
What options remain?
The reality is that we are being ruled and controlled by a very small number of very rich people.
Replying to @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
Many of these billionaires are hoping or trying to dismantle democracy and create some sort of techno feudalism where corporations rule. What’s disturbing is that many of these men have read sci fi where such techno feudalism is the norm and they seemed to have missed that such societies were never portrayed as being ideal or even good, they are always dystopic.
Replying to @Freeposity@lemmy.world
They are dystopic for everybody but the cunty billionaire at the top, who has an amazing time as emperor, its that role they chase after. They completely lack any empathy for anybody else, they really do not give a fuck how many people get crushed in the process of them being all powerful. Sad thing is, they wouldn’t even enjoy it if the achieved it, they can’t even enjoy what they have now, all unhappy characters straight out of a Ronald Dahl novel.