> Nearly all the most impressive people I know are accidental moderates. ... But someone who works with ideas has to be independent-minded to do it well.
A shame he doesn't name names so we can check how many are openly fascist now that it is in vogue.
> The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views.
> I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn’t actually do this—that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we’ve seen all three
So possibly the third kind of moderate is someone who thinks they are moderate but are really just oblivious about plainly obvious consequences.
The Two Kinds of Moderate (Paul Graham) · HackerTrans
A shame he doesn't name names so we can check how many are openly fascist now that it is in vogue.
Paul more recently, on twitter:
https://x.com/paulg/status/2007079764964892917
> The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views.
> I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn’t actually do this—that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we’ve seen all three
So possibly the third kind of moderate is someone who thinks they are moderate but are really just oblivious about plainly obvious consequences.