Hi Billy, > On Sep 13, 2017, at 6:25 AM, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical > Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > People watching this from afar sometimes suggest that tech simply has too > much money to stop. This is nonsense. Politics is run by politicians, and > while they like money, they like attention more. People who think the money > tech spends can buy protection from the political system misunderstand their > dynamic: The transfers of money referred to blandly as “campaign finance” are > equal parts bribery and extortion, and the system works best when the target > is scared. >
Heh. Perversely, this is rather encouraging. Silicon Valley definitely needs a good dose of humility (or would you prefer a different term, Billy? :-). The hard part is finding the right politicians to teach it… E -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to radicalcentrism+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
