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Hans Christensen's avatar

Remember when the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs were preaching 'disruption'? It became very popular to try to create value by tearing down old structures and building new instead. Most attempts failed, but select ones succeeded and made people rich, some of them extremely rich. These billionaires now think the same goes for everything they can get their hands on, even politics. What they all forget is that the 'system' was what protected them and allowed them to get rich. Most of them never learned about gratitude, paying back to society and respect for others, humbleness.

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Steve Abbott's avatar

Kind of reminds me of the time Michael Jordan decided to play baseball. One of the best basketball players of all time was only a so-so baseball player. The skills just weren't there. Also there is a concept called "survivor bias" in which we tend to focus on the very few successful individuals and not on the thousands of those who failed. For every Michael Jordan, there are several thousand kids who were not good enough for the NBA. For every Zuckerberg, there are thousands of other nerds who tried to disrupt/innovate something and lost thousands - or even millions, of their own and other people's money.

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JDinTX's avatar

But every MAGAt thinks they have hit the jackpot, or soon will…

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Carolyn Nafziger's avatar

"create value by tearing down old structures and building new instead" Never heard this definition of disruption with respect to Silicon Valley. At least originally, it referred to remarkable technological breakthroughs.

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NLTownie's avatar

Remember the Zuck motto - move fast and break things. Not much social conscience or compassion there.

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JDinTX's avatar

Sounds like chump. What he has done with lies non stop.

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J L Graham's avatar

Motto of bull in china shop?

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JDinTX's avatar

I used to think that the Gates couple had the influence, guess I was stuck in the way back past. I really thought Thiel was so asinine that nobody would pay him any attention. But buying politicians has it’s reward…

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Herb Klinker (FL and Umbria)'s avatar

“The Making of the Vice-President 2024” underwritten by the Peter Thiel, Let’s Screw Democracy Foundation.

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JDinTX's avatar

Exactly.

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Miselle's avatar

My goal should I ever win one if those Billion dollar lotteries. ( The only time I buy those, in fact. I have enough in life.)

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J L Graham's avatar

When you can buy the politicians who make buying politicians perfectly legal, THAT'S purchasing power.

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JDinTX's avatar

That why I become apoplectic when I hear idiots like Bret Stephen’s (on Bill Maher recently) blather about how people are making a mistake saying that our democracy is in danger. Somebody with his head in the sand and his arse blowing in the wind. Chump would just be a bad president, that’s all. I was in danger of blowing a gasket.

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Hans Christensen's avatar

Clayton M. Christensen, business theory. Comprehending Christensen's business model, which takes the disruptive vector from the idea borne from the mind of the innovator to a marketable product, is central to understanding how novel technology facilitates the rapid destruction of established technologies and markets by the disruptor.

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Notes On Useful Beauty's avatar

Tell that to Netscape.

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JDinTX's avatar

Rose Kennedy did that for her crowd, probably most of these had mothers like Neil Gorsuch has.

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