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return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’

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Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 11 months ago
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Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
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  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    Says a wealth-hoarding, mass carbon-polluting asshole. His ethics and those of everyday people are vastly vastly different due to his inability to pay taxes.

    *You best start believing in Technofeudalist societies, you’re in one. *

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      Inability?

      Larry Ellison pays less taxes than you because he is a parasite on society and we let him steal from us.

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        Yeah, right. His inability is a choice, an ethical one.

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    Like hell I will. I’ll be free until the clankers come for me

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    He says that the police will be under constant surveillance. They already are and they still get away with crimes. Unless being a criminal is a cops best behaviour.

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    keep pushing Larry, we all dare you

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      The problem is that they do keep pushing. And getting away with it.

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    LOL! So republicans will stop committing crimes? Can’t wait to see your son destroy CBS/Paramount.

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    How about the billionaires? Any rules for them?

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      Fed into woodchippers like they deserve.

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      lol, no.

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      If the billionaires want the Chinese model for us, it’s only fair they fall under that same model.

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        Mr. Ed Snowden would like a word.

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        You know what? Seeing as how we’re getting it anyway whether we like it or not, I think I’d voluntarily take the surveillance state and censorship if it comes with rich people getting absolutely stomped by the government when they get out of line.

        Maybe we can adopt the Vietnamese model where that billionaire either pays back $9 billion of embezzled funds or gets executed.

        If we can’t have a real democracy with real freedom I at least want blood of vengeance to bathe in from time to time.

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    Does he count as a citizen? Will he be surveilled also to keep him in line? Will it force them to be kind to their employees and not cheat them?

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      No. Laws don’t apply to oligarchs.

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    Not that he had anything to do with it or anything.

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    Isn’t that literally the premise of 1984?

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    This is a reminder post. Remember when tech billionaire Larry Ellison said this?

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      On the 17th of September last year?

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    Golly, sounds like it’s time to watch Larry Ellison a lot closer too.

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    What a coinkidink!

    I just predicted this morning that the way things are going his and his billionaire friend’s heads will be on pikes before the end of the decade

    It will be declared an international monument that will be visited by schools for decades to come to learn about the importance of regular class wars to keep the parasites in check in a society.

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      A tzompantli of rich skulls is the dream! Would go great with our loofa vines!

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        No spoilers, but I was expecting a bit more from the movie. I wasn’t disappointed, but I was expecting more. Although apparently it’s the first part of a trilogy so I’ll wait and see.

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    Why do billionaires always look like creepy Madame Tussauds wax statues?

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