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      I think Thiel is worse for the world. Elon musk is more show and shine - and crumbles spectacular anyway

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        Absolutely. The amount he donated to conservatives and far right politicians have more real world impact than clown Elon.

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      If the test is “how much better the world of 2023 would be if someone went back in time and murdered their father before they were born” it’d be either Thiel or Bezos. Probably Bezos.

      If the test is “this guy just makes my skin crawl” then it’d have to be Altman.

      I gotta admit I can’t really be too angry at Elon. He fills me with too much joy. Every time one of his rockets blows up and his little army of sycophant morons cheer, it just is such a great time I can’t even. He’s just a funny man. Like he’s a clown like he’s here to amuse me. How can anyone not like that?

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    Elon shouldn’t be in this chart, too easy to win, makes the championship not interesting.

    Like if Vegeta super Saiyan participates in an high school karate tournament

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      Elon shouldn’t be in this chart, too easy to win

      One would think, but with both Thiel and Bezos in the competition this isn’t as cut-and-dry as you’d assume. Thiel especially is fucking evil, he’s way worse than Musk

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        I live in Washington State, home of Amazon, and id wager more here hate bezos than anybody else on this list

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      But thats just because he is the most well known (and most annoying). If you were to look at the things they have actually done, bezos and Thiel are probably much worse

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        It is difficult to quanitify the damage Musk has done lately. It isn’t so clear cut as paying for sweatshop labour or stripping employment rights but he has done a great deal of difficult to define social or cultural harm by empowering fascists and using his public image to endorse fringe conspiracy theories

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          It helps that a lot of people don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.

          The way people complain about AI is the same as others complain about immigrants.

          AI is both terrible and useless, and also going to take everyone’s jobs.

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    Marc Andreessen is too low there.

    Musk is a clown that says vile and stupid thing. An useful idiot for others Silicon Valley VCs.

    Andreessen and Thiel (and too some small extent Luckey) are in the background trying to push for far right libertarian dystopia.

    Andreessen is the guy who kept pushing for web 3.0, trying to dominate it before it becomes big, so that he can monopolize / become a new digital libertarian govt, but of course it got hijacked by scammers, and states like Russia or North Korea, but he doesn’t give a flying fuck.

    Thiel of course is far right financier. There’s a reason why they try to hide in the background.

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    I don’t like what Peter Thiel has invested in (Stripe and Palantir). Elon Musk is ceo of a few companies that actually try to create interesting stuff, it’s better than actually funding collection of data.

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      He’s actively platforming white supremacists, Nazis, and far right ideologues (people who have caused actual, tangible harm), normalizing their rhetoric and actions, and making it impossible for anyone on Xitter to push back or even report harassment from these kinds of hatemongers. He is literally bringing the worst parts of 4chan, Breitbart, Stormfront, etc to the mainstream and trying to make it seem normal.

      He’s also a natalist and a longtermist, which are just euphamisms for eugenicists. He’s not trying to make anything better or interesting, he’s trying to create a white supremacist world where only white cishet christian men have status, where women are just vessels for procreation, and no one else has any place. The only reason he wants to go to Mars is so he can have a white ethnostate built on the backs of slavery, where no one can do anything to stop him.

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        I guess it’s just my interpretation of “Worse Person in Tech” are we voting them based off of their person or what they’re doing to the tech industry.