• thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    I’m afraid about every person who has power, not only the dumb ones. Either smart people with bad intentions or dumb people with power. The chance that a powerful person is smart and has good intentions is rare.

    • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Good intentions alone don’t guarantee good outcomes. I suggest not giving any single person or entity too much power, no matter who they are.

        • Juice
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          5 months ago

          You see real democracy is when you subvert the will of the people and call it “checks and balances”.

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      5 months ago

      The only way to get this rich is by exploiting others and almost definitely breaking laws. These people all have a screw loose somewhere.

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      I’m afraid of both, too, but if I had to choose:

      • evil but smart people only harm you when it benefits them
      • dumb but good people harm you all the time

      As such I see the later as far more dangerous. Although there’s an even worse group, that Altman likely belongs to - the dumb but evil ones.