• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I think a lot ot these tech bros bear a great irony to the concept of survival of the fittest. They were absolutely the fittest to a period of the early 21st century where a middle class kid with enough brains and work ethic in the right place with the right idea and no ethics or hesitation could become incredibly wealthy and powerful. But they created a collapse or merely drastically amplified one that was coming instead of trying to prevent it. Or maybe even they are trying, but the traits that allowed them to rise to power made them unable to actually help.

    But regardless, they cannot function in lean times. They’re the socioeconomic equivalent to hypercarnivores. It’s a great position when times are good for it, but it’s not a stable one. In lean times the fittest species are often small omnivorous scavengers who don’t use too much energy to sustain themselves