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TranscriptA tweet by Jon sheletsky (@shedletsky) saying "Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn't we run it?. The tweet has 658k views, 70 bookmarks, 70 likes, 460 retweets/quotes and 694 replies. It was posted at 6:52 PM, 2/3/25.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

I'm pretty sure that if we fed a handful of fascist billionaires to a wood chipper, the rest would be much easier to manage.

[–] dylanmorgan 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

If we fed every CEO of a Fortune 500 company into a wood chipper the only effect on the world would be fertilizing some plants.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Why so pessimistic? I'm pretty sure there would be much more positive change on the world from that purely hypothetical scenario.

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