Here's what's going to happen when our services are privatized. First, some services will just be gone. Public good services that aren't seen as profitable will be gone. That's things like Social Security. Why would a billionaire get involved with that? They'll just steal the existing funds and shut it down. Second, services that we already paid for with our taxes, which could be monetized, like NOAA, we'll still pay for but we'll pay lots more and we'll pay it monthly like a cable company. We'll end up with a whole list of new service "subscriptions" for everything from the weather to schools. And our taxes will NOT go down because we'll still be paying for billionaires and mega corps to pay NO taxes just like we do now, while the government continues to operate things like the DOD (which will itself be pared down, sold off in parts, and augmented with billionaire-owned privateers). This new country the billionaires want is a return to feudalism in which you will owe your liege lords all kinds of money every month while scrabbling to keep your families alive, with all the "services for the public good" gone.
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John Robb has been a well known military theorist, strategist, analyst for a very long time. His embrace of network state theory is disturbing. I read two articles discussing his thinking on this yesterday. You should become familiar with this theory as it is shaping your & your progeny's futures through the efforts of extremist tech billionaires who frankly don't care if they grind you under the tank treads. You will be serfs in their new AI-controlled fiefdoms.
1. https://www.thenerdreich.com/network-state-government-ai-tech-takeover-united-states/
"While establishment #journalists & politicians struggle to explain to what’s happening, Robb makes it clear that we are in the middle of an advanced struggle. It's about imposing a #NetworkState model on the #UnitedStates and using a #tech takeover to seal the deal.
The good news: Robb believes the current project will likely fail"
https://www.thenerdreich.com/network-state-government-ai-tech-takeover-united-states/
'Bursts of authoritarianism'
The #UnitedStates is currently evolving into a #NetworkState, says a #military analyst who writes regularly on the subject.
https://www.thenerdreich.com/network-state-government-ai-tech-takeover-united-states/
"Musk's actions... [are] the realization of a radical #ideology...
goal is to concentrate #power in the hands of #tech billionaires...
a foreign-born billionaire imposing a new form of governance without the consent of the #American people"
Tech Bro Supervillains Confess World Takeover Plan
1/Ω @ProPublica is reporting that Gautier Cole Killian, the 24 year old engineer on the #DOGE team, worked at #JumpTrading.
This seem to not be entirely correct - Cole Killian is a crypto bro who apparently worked at Jump's crypto subsidiary (cleverly named #JumpCrypto), a company which was notorious among traders for market manipulation and ended up getting whacked for over a hundred million dollars for financial crimes before having its CEO forced out (which is possibly why Mr. Killian has time to DOGE).
Among other things Jump Crypto was intimately involved in the spectacular collapse of the $40 billion Terra/Luna ponzi scheme, a financial cataclysm that ruined tens of thousands of people's lives.
Put less gently, no one who worked at Jump Crypto should be anywhere near any financial job ever again, period.
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-crypto-grifters-of-doge
The techbroligarchs are neofeudalists who think of themselves as Ubermensch that own and control the #NetworkState.
My lesson learned a couple years ago: “Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms.”
https://www.superversive.co/essays/rewilding-digital-castles-amp-kingdoms
Gil Duran reports, in The New Repbulic
#Coinbase CEO #BrianArmstrong
#NetworkState #NerdReich #Ecology
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is a familiar face on Capitol Hill.
But the billionaire crypto bro has some shocking beliefs.
He says the USA is in decline ... and it's time for "backup options."
"Crypto's destiny," he calls it.
My latest, via the @newrepublic #NetworkState
Some tech bros met this weekend to discuss creating their own weird tech-ruled countries.
Participants included the CEO of Coinbase & the co-founder of Ethereum.
@WIRED
is apparently the only mainstream US outlet to mention the #NetworkState conference
https://www.wired.com/story/network-school-balaji-srinivasan/
And your #NetworkState conference host, Balaji Srinivasan, the guy who wants tech bros to adopt gray uniforms and work with police to purge Democrats from San Francisco (and who largely copied his ideas from J.D. Vance mentor Curtis Yarvin).https://www.thenerdreich.com/balaji-srinivasans-gray-vision-for-san-francisco/
Sunday: The #NetworkState cult's 2nd annual conference kicks off (after the #Token2049singapore crypto party).
Hear weird talks about tech's plan to replace democracy with tech-governed societies!
Speakers:
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
Don't Die guy Bryan Johnson
Ethereum co-founder Vitalk Buterin
California Forever CEO, Jan #Sramek's longtime fascination with Peter #Thiel is interesting
because Thiel is a major figure in the #NetworkState movement.
Thiel
– along with #CaliforniaForever investor Marc #Andreessen
– is an investor in Pronomos Capital,
a company funding the construction of new tech-themed cities worldwide.
Balaji #Srinivasan, a man with very bizarre ideas who is the main evangelist of the Network State,
advises #PronomosCapital.
Thiel also funded the #SeasteadingInstitute,
which was an early version of the Network State idea.
It sought to create sovereign territories that would float out in the ocean.
The Seasteading Institute has a direct connection to Solano County.
In 2009, it funded the beginning of #Ephemerisle, a weeklong floating art party/group living/Burning Man-style experiment in the Sacramento Delta.
California Forever denies any connection to the Network State.
So I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Sramek sees Thiel as his main hero and, like Thiel,
Sramek is also trying to create new tech-governed cities.
And it's another coincidence that Andreessen and Thiel are funding a company to invest in these cities around the world.
And it's yet another coincidence that Srinivasan
– the main Network State guy
– is advising Andreessen and Thiel.
https://www.thenerdreich.com/california-forever-has-a-major-pr-problem-hes-the-ceo/
the Trashfuture ep on the #networkState with @gilduran is very funny and very good https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/there-is-no-ice-cream-only-butter-feat-gil-duran/
#NetworkState guru Balaji Srinivasan - who wants to purge Democrats from San Francisco - will screen his new film tonight ... in Oakland.
Did the techno-authoritarian "Gray Tribe" just get its ass kicked out of SF? A minor investigation... #SFDeepTech https://www.thenerdreich.com/deep-tech-did-balajis-san-francisco-network-state-smoke-test-fail/
NEW: Balaji Srinivasan, the #NetworkState VC who wants to ban Democrats from San Francisco, funds a startup pushing for a new tech-dominated campus here.
“You know that there’s something called De-Ba’athification,” said Srinivasan last year. “De-Nazification after World War II, right?“
“De-Blueification is the goal. Blues out, right?”
San Francisco: All eyes on this scheme for a utopian tech "city campus" in the heart of SF, with links to Balaji Srinivisan's #NetworkState conference, via
the San Francisco Chronicle.
To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to #Balaji #Srinivasan.
Before you do, steel yourself for what’s to come:
A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot’s ravings,
but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius
“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the V.C. firm Andreessen-Horowitz,
in a blurb for Balaji’s 2022 book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country.
The book outlines a plan for tech plutocrats to exit democracy and
establish new sovereign territories.
I mentioned Balaji’s ideas in two previous stories about Network State–related efforts in California
—a proposed tech colony called California Forever
—and the tech-funded campaign to capture San Francisco’s government.
Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name,
has a solid Valley pedigree:
He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University,
founded multiple startups,
became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz
and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase.
He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly strident neo-reactionary tech political movement that sees American democracy as an enemy.
In 2013, a New York Times story headlined “Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call” described a speech in which he
“told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations’: outdated and obsolescent.”
“The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator, a leading start-up incubator,” reported the Times.
Balaji paints a bleak picture of a dystopian future in a U.S. in chaos and decline,
but his prophecies sometimes fall short.
Last year, he lost $1 million in a public bet after wrongly predicting a massive surge in the price of Bitcoin.
Still, his appetite for autocracy is bottomless.
Last October, Balaji hosted the first-ever Network State Conference.
#Garry #Tan
—the current Y Combinator CEO who’s attempting to spearhead a political takeover of San Francisco
—participated in an interview with Balaji and cast the effort as part of the Network State movement.
Tan, who made headlines in January after tweeting
“die slow motherfuckers”
at local progressive politicians, frames his campaign as an experiment in “moderate” politics
But in a podcast interview one month before the conference, Balaji laid out a more disturbing and extreme vision.
What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said,
after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith
(founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore).
Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe
clad in gray t-shirts.
“And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”
The Grays’ shirts would feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos …
Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.”
Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city.
In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman’s banquets” to win them over.
“Grays should embrace the police, okay?
All-in on the police,” said Srinivasan.
“What does that mean? That’s, as I said, banquets.
That means every policeman’s son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security.”
#NetworkState #grayshirts
https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat
