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Big Tech’s hinterland of ideas
2025
Overview
A good place to start, I have found, is to read what the big beasts now in power in the US say about their fundamental beliefs. [...]one overlapping theme — you can see this in the New York Times profile of Alex Karp, chief executive of Palantir, for example — is the importance they give to class rather than the left’s strong focus on race and ethnicity. There are enough threads here to make a tapestry: an ability for technical disruption that is at the same time an iconoclastic desire to disrupt reigning ideas; a disdain for democratic procedures, bureaucracy and rules that impede a strong leader’s or great mind’s freedom of action; and finally a sort of heroic-epic view of life that prizes world-reshaping endeavours. There is a rich seam to mine; I hope Free Lunch readers will do their own reading and share their thoughts about the ideas that have so spectacularly come to power.
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The Financial Times Limited
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