Understanding the Tech Bro-ligarchy

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Our country is now run by a bunch of spineless billionaires who needed to get laid in college but didn’t, so they made it our problem. Today, Edward Ongweso Jr. of This Machine Kills helps us understand the tech bro-ligarchy’s key overlords, why they are so far up the president’s rectum, their deranged philosophy on life, and their apocalypse escape plans. Support me + listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50. Get an exclusive 60% on Incogni! https://incogni.com/fruity Me on Instagram. A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It really feels like we let the lab rat who designed a hot or not website to rank his female students based on attractiveness.
0:07.6	I don't know. It feels like it got out of the meth lab.
0:14.9	Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFruity. I'm Matt Bernstein. I'm so happy that you're here. And before we
0:23.1	start this episode, I would like to let you know with full transparency that despite spending
0:29.3	thousands of hours, creating content and podcasts about how dangerous the right and their
0:35.5	consolidation of power is, I, too, attended Donald Trump's
0:40.2	inauguration on Monday. And some of you might say that I'm a sellout. Some of you might say that I'm a
0:45.9	spineless hack who will do anything to stay in the good graces of power. Were the snacks good?
1:01.0	Donald Trump has spent the better part of the last decade campaigning as a populist.
1:09.0	He's for the common folk, the farmer, the small business owner, the downtrodden among us. But his inauguration on Monday was attended almost exclusively by
1:12.9	billionaires. Seated physically closer to him than many actual politicians were the following.
1:20.2	Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, you know, Facebook and Instagram, Elon Musk of Twitter,
1:26.2	I'm still calling a Twitter on this podcast. It's a grudge that I hold.
1:30.1	Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Shao of TikTok, Sundar Pachai of Google, Sam Altman of OpenAI, the chat
1:40.2	GBT guy, Tim Cook of Apple. So many people, myself included, feel so overwhelmed right now
1:47.5	by the rapid deterioration of federal institutions and what feels like the rapid wedding of the
1:54.7	government, specifically the Trump administration and the tech industry. And I think most of us
1:59.8	have questions. Like, what does this
2:01.6	mean for the communication platforms we all rely on every day? What can we do? I want this episode to hopefully
2:08.4	simplify the rise of the tech oligarchy for those of us who are confused and feel like
2:14.1	everything is getting a little fucking out of control to create at least, you know,
2:18.5	an hour of stillness and understanding and hopefully maybe a path forward, at least for now.
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