I blame Elmo. And Ramaswamy. And Bankman Fried. The Pharma Bro. Zuckerberg (just for being feckless). To name a few.
Honestly, except for Bill Gates, what Tech Bro ever acted like he’d even heard of Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth, much less read it? Bezo’s ex-wife is the only other tech-adjacent billionaire I know giving her money away, and she’s been excoriated for that.
Meanwhile her ex-husband, when he wasn’t spending money on rockets and space flight to keep up with Elmo and Richard Branson, or wrecking one of America’s great newspapers, built a clock buried in the mountains of the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. Mostly just because he could. A clock on private property, that will tick once a year and chime once in… a thousand years? Where nobody will hear it or see it. The subject was philanthropy. I have no idea what a Long Clock or rockets have to do with philanthropy.
Carnegie built public libraries around the country, and established a charitable foundation. Elmo mostly seems intent on repopulating the earth with white children, single-handedly. I don’t see the similarities.
I also had no idea tech bros were such whiny cry babies. Or wait…maybe I did.
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