Obviously this is a stupid take but it is revealingly stupid. Billionaires watch China financial markets etc because a large part of their personal assets and hence their wellbeing is tied up with it. The idea that that is all that is important is exactly twitter.com/Dominic2306/st…
the financial sector/Silicon Valley fanboy mindset that assumes that all that matters is the big numbers and blitzscaling. But most people don’t need to read that *because it does not matter to them*. For them the “lobby stuff” – NHS, taxes, social services – really matters
because it shapes their lives immediately rather than at five removes. You need to be rich enough or antisocial to think that only trivial minds care about a council is doing or how petrol prices are changing.
Just the sort of mindset, in fact, who would champion something that crushes individual small businesses and kills off real human opportunities and relationships in order to fulfil some Valley fanboy vision of a data centres and AI technoBritain.
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 20 September 2021. View the original thread.