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A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry (theconversation.com)

submitted 1 year ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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We don’t have to look too deeply into history to find parallels to this kind of worldview. Simply put, it is the worldview of colonialism: it sees both nature and other people as domains to be conquered and exploited for “growth”.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's nothing substantive to this criticism. It's just "do you know who else was optimistic about progress? The bad guys!"

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

As it turns out, all life is colonialist due to its propensity to view the universe as a place to grow into