Is it just me, or does the old Evil Overlord List look an awful lot like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerburg, Peter Thiel et al are systematically looting it for all the worst of their ideas?
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Is it just me, or does the old Evil Overlord List look an awful lot like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerburg, Peter Thiel et al are systematically looting it for all the worst of their ideas?
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Is it just me, or does the old Evil Overlord List look an awful lot like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerburg, Peter Thiel et al are systematically looting it for all the worst of their ideas?
@cstross I have often suspected that their mental, emotional, and future-visional development were set by the books in their high school library (so lots of Heinlein YAs and suchlike things) and has not been examined or interrogated since. Nor compared to reality to see what's actually possible, either.
Bathing in unexamined cliches doesn't end well, unfortunately often for the uninvolved (or un-responsible, at least).
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@cstross I have often suspected that their mental, emotional, and future-visional development were set by the books in their high school library (so lots of Heinlein YAs and suchlike things) and has not been examined or interrogated since. Nor compared to reality to see what's actually possible, either.
Bathing in unexamined cliches doesn't end well, unfortunately often for the uninvolved (or un-responsible, at least).
I once read a quote that people stop maturing mentally when they first get rich.
And I think that there is a lot of truth to that.
