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1. Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 04:56:08 JST Kim Scheinberg

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   • Cory Doctorow

   @pluralistic

   I spent 5+ years as a billionaire's wordsmith, which meant knowing him intimately enough to write in his voice.

   I think the thread running through most of them is not a belief in their own basic goodness but rather contempt for everyone else, including and especially their peers. Expressing that contempt with plausible deniability was part of my (usually) unspoken mandate.

   Contempt and duper's delight. Those were the last thrills once $$ reached a point of diminishing returns.

   • Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 04:56:10 JST Cory Doctorow

     "Generally, I don’t think rich people believe anything besides: 1. they are basically good; 2. they deserve their money and no one should take it; and 3. anything that threatens ideas 1. and 2. is bad. Everything else is pretty flexible."

     -Elizabeth Lopatto

     https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/2/23488770/elon-musk-texas-twitter-politics-republican

     Aral Balkan repeated this.