Anti-Humanism Is THE San Francisco Value
San Francisco: Global Corruption Incubator And Enshittification Template
You are just a natural resource to exploit to convert into additional capital. Training data. Do you think you have rights? Ownership over your assets, like genes, knowledge, experience? How quaint. That only exists for those with the financial depth to enforce their legal rights. You are an object to be acted upon, not a subject allowed agency. You are beholden to defective one-sided contracts (https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/unenforceable-contracts-tips-33079.html) even though you have comparative lack of capacity, because you lack the financial depth to engage a corporation in court as an equal. How can you be said to have the same capabilities as a billion dollar corporation? Organizations pass the Turing test, but we won't call them AI. AI piggybacks on corporate law, because we have already allowed inhuman institutions to become more powerful than humans. You experience duress when signing these contracts, because they are required to do your work if you are a knowledge worker. Official government notice can be served via email and other electronic media. One is required to opt-in. Even though corporations have undue influence on the government (Citizens United), their contracts are still enforceable. Precisely because they have all the capital and you do not.
Individuals are not allowed to own intellectual property. Only the ultra rich and corporations get that privilege. Your art, voice, persona, genes, original thoughts, labor—they will be stolen from you without compensation. And even if we can prove it with a standardized financial calculation called 'Human Life Value' (the total earnings cash value of your life, including work, retirement, domestic services, and so forth) you will never be able to successfully sue those assholes for a tort that resulted in damages. Don't you understand? You don't own yourself. You don't own your thoughts. You don't own your image. You left that sitting out like trash to be taken by a dumpster diver. You are a dumpster. Wherever you have been, a trail of garbage was left behind. These machines vacuum it all up, because you were foolish enough to have been seen in public, or wrote something once.
You don't get to determine whether your intellectual property has been stolen. The crime is so fast and so obscured, that the perpetrator has ample time to delete the evidence. The perpetrator is innocent until proved guilty, because even though a corporation can't be drafted or serve on a jury, it somehow has rights. Capital empowers these entities to commit a crime so fast that your asset value and human life value is annihilated before you know what happened, much like a flash loan attack. (https://www.coinspeaker.com/guides/what-is-flash-loan-attack-and-how-to-prevent-it/) They raid your intellectual property and you are left with nothing. You only have value as an unthinking robot taking orders from training data derived from you back before the wealthy used machines to be their new lackeys. You exist to fix the capital goods to keep the machines running to keep the ultra rich and the government in power. How will you acquire capital when your individuality and the assets which you own are taken from you without recourse? I think you know the answer. Violence. It's inevitable as a sine trough and is a logical consequence of absolutism. See Russia's response to NATO in Ukraine for details. Sometimes, to survive, you need to fight the World War 3 you didn't ask for, but got anyhow.
When people say violence doesn't solve anything, they clearly have someone else doing the violence for them. All fascists can be identified: they are people who demand personal safety, law, and order, but refuse to take personal responsibility for these things themselves. They want to be free from violence by empowering someone else to be violent on their behalf. This is why there is a police state in America, and the police serve the powerful.
Unlimited police power means unlimited legal power. This is why you are unfree, but can't figure out who is responsible. And you have no say in the matter. A lawyer in Nebraska has more say over your fate than you as a citizen do (https://necaa.org/should-tech-companies-help-law-enforcement-break-into-your-devices/). And remember when they asked 15 years ago where all these law graduates were going to go if there wasn't enough work for them? They made work for themselves by litigating until there was a financial need for their litigation license. Are you surprised more lawyers led to more litigation? And that they have a symbiotic relationship with tech?
Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/) is a great way to be exposed to the computational cognoscenti's group-think. All non-technical devoted thinkers should read it, if for no other reason, than to understand that these people are ignoramuses outside of computer science. This is exactly like reading a newspaper article about a topic in which one is an expert. The only difference is that the computational cognoscenti believes you have nothing to add to the conversation and that only capital and programmers should have any say as to the future of humanity.
They talk like they're thought leaders and act as if nobody else was qualified. When confronted with an actual thought leader, s/he is disqualified for lacking capital or programming knowledge. Why aren't philosophers consulted? Because we lack capital and programming skills. See the despicable threads on Hacker News where these tech-Hitlers dismiss Eliezer Shlomo Yudkovsky as having no standing (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=false&query=Yudkovsky&sort=byPopularity&type=story). Claiming his assertions are irrelevant because he's not a programmer. Do you see how most discussion on the threads won't even address his most important arguments? The only philosopher that matters is the one with enough money to implement his vision. In their eyes, Elon Musk and Bill Gates are philosophers. Venture capitalists are philosophers. The rest of us are irrelevant. Even though there is no true capitalist marketplace, the 'marketplace' is where all ideas are adjudicated. If you are too puny to fight, you do not matter. You aren't a programmer and you don't have money. It does not matter to them if you are right. Hackers as a group hate humanity.
They are physical craven cowards, which is why even though they empower violent systems, they individually abhor violence. They talk about the violence in San Francisco (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/bob-lee-elon-musk-murder-b2314939.html), which they aided and abetted, even germinated (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-got-a-big-tax-break-to-stay-in-san-francisco-jack). They claim to be problem solvers, but cannot even take responsibility for the problems they have created.
Most hackers are greedy, psychopathic liars when acting in a group, even though individually they may appear to be neurotypical and kind. We can see this in the disconnect between the personalities of the organizations they power, versus their individual ones. Why should they be bothered to discover that the drug-addict-population-called-homeless doubled in 20 years, while the budget for them ballooned 10 fold? Why should they demand government accountability for a financial machine that exists to degrade public services and then demand more money to remediate the degraded services? (“The bureaucracy is expanding, to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”)(https://quotepark.com/quotes/1337318-oscar-wilde-the-bureaucracy-is-expanding-to-meet-the-needs-of/) The homelessness budget in San Francisco is hardly the only place where money is spent on the homeless. They sleep on MUNI, they dominate the libraries, and they cause all the filth that the Department of Public Works is tasked to clean. They have made SF General a financial deathtrap for anyone who is not a drug-addicted homeless scumbag. As I have mentioned, there is an argument to be made that each homeless person in SF justifies over $400,000/year in government spending. Obviously there is no interest in solving the problem. If we were using some Utilitarian standard, we could prove that more people are hurt than helped by these policies. But there is no standard we can use to hold the powerful accountable, because standards are established in court. And we do not have the capability to assert our rights without the courts, which we have established require money if one is to avail one's self to them. And these transient tech assholes who refuse to familiarize themselves with San Francisco's budget and budget history are glad to spend everybody else's money to fix the problem that they themselves created, and block measures that contradict their preexisting ideological assumptions. If you object, the legal system and the tech system will be used to destroy your life and the City of San Francisco—which collected all those fees from you—will help lock you up (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-san-francisco-man-spraying-homeless-woman-water-hose-rcna65372). Bob Lee's alleged killer got less time for selling switchblades (https://www.aol.com/news/know-nima-momeni-police-killed-233714357.html). 'Neighbors' like Edson Garcia, owner of 'Brioche Bakery And Cafe' will be there to film you and destroy your life as a 71 year old gallery owner who still needed to work for a living because there is no such thing as retirement anymore in America. Don't you see? Old people don't deserve to make a living, but homeless people deserve to commit all the crimes they want. Will there be a debate? Will the criminal vagrant be prosecuted? No, because she feeds the wealthy's sense of messianic guilt.
Tech venture capital offered unlimited taxable income to San Francisco, which was then used to enrich the city workers. Most San Francisco city workers are awarded multi-million dollar pensions (https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/09/01/why-san-francisco-is-in-trouble--19000-highly-compensated-city-employees-earned-150000-in-pay--perks/). Their ranks are growing and they are significantly wealthier than non-government city workers (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocitycalifornia). Those who serve the public have managed to team up with the ultra rich to serve themselves. This is because Americans have delegated their decision-making to 'political parties' and 'experts.'
I am a San Francisco expert. I know the city better than almost anyone. And they don't know anything, but talk as if they do. If you ever wondered why computers went from obedient machines to salesbots always trying to hijack your user preferences, you only need to spend a few minutes with these San Francisco tech scum to know.
The tech scum hate humanity. They aren't raising kids in the city, so they don't really care that 'homeless' pedophiles wander the streets. (https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/jul/29/california-seeks-to-solutions-to-homeless-sex-offe/) Why should city children have any right to grow up in the same safe environment the hackers grew up in? The hackers are from the suburbs and according to them, the city is not for families. Parents are ignored, because to tech perverts, children are just resources to cultivate into future sex partners. (https://pjmedia.com/columns/megan-fox/2023/03/16/youtube-protects-trans-groomer-demonetizes-my-video-about-him-as-graphic-descriptions-of-child-abuse-n1678960) Only those with legal power have the privilege to call others bigots (https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/what-grooming-truth-behind-dangerous-bigoted-lie-targeting-lgbtq-community). They attack the values of the disempowered in order to stifle opposition. Remember, they are 'disruptors' and criminality goes hand in hand with their way of thinking. (Amazon dodging state sales tax, Uber breaking taxi laws, Cloud Kitchens violating food and safety standards that 'brick and mortar' businesses must adhere to, etc) Furthermore, many of the tech 'thought leaders' have no stake in the genetic future of humanity. For example, one of AI's biggest proponents Yuval Noah Harari (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Noah_Harari) has no children and has no intention of reproducing. This group would rather unilaterally and without debate, back-date the definition of humanity, rather than accept that they are inspired by a post-human future. Is it any surprise Noah Harari is anti-human and a proponent of post-human organisms? To say he is interested in Human Extinction is not an exaggeration. He has an obvious conflict of interest, but is consulted on the topic as an ally of humanity, not as an enemy. The tech world refuses to acknowledge that HUMAN reproduction is a biological phenomenon and that any proposed non-sexual reproduction is reproductive advocacy for an inhuman entity. This isn't even new. Chris Korda, Mr “Eat a Queer fetus for Jesus” (https://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/02063812.htm) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Korda), founder of the Church of Euthanasia, was a tech frontrunner for this type of mental dysfunction back in the 1990s. (https://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/) Why wasn't he an influencer? He was too honest about advocating Cannibalism, Sodomy, and Suicide. But oddly enough he's come back into fashion. Is it because he wanted the Unabomber for president? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber_for_President) Those are the pillars of the church. Want to challenge their motives? Don't you know that it is HATE to demand debate on equal terms? Micro-aggressions as Robert Malone mentioned today are correlated to speech actors that must be censored. Censorship is a MACRO-aggression, but that is ignored during the discussion of 'micro-aggressions.'
Power and data structures the lives of non-programmers and non-capital owners. This is why they feel entitled to foist other ideological agendas against unwilling targets. They have cognitive dissonance between their supposed values and their implemented ones. They will defend the freedom of the homeless person even as they embezzle the freedom of working people. It is why there are so many socialists in the group and it's why they are addicted to censorship. (https://www.fastcompany.com/90202378/meet-the-silicon-valley-socialists-pushing-a-surge-in-tech-worker-activism) (https://seattledsa.org/organizer/tech-workers-coalition/?eventDisplay=past) (https://www.salon.com/2019/04/11/silicon-valley-once-a-bastion-of-libertarianism-sees-a-budding-socialist-movement/) (https://politics.slashdot.org/story/19/04/14/2335250/are-silicon-valley-workers-abandoning-libertarianism-for-socialism) Those who exist between the homeless and the ultra-wealthy are irrelevant. We are untermenschen who must be genocided.
The only parties that censor are the powerful when exposed to ideas they cannot rebut. We can see this in terms of how speech acts are censored, or at least censured without intellectually honest engagement (ie: the Twitter files) (
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Don't you see the mimesis? San Francisco is the mental landscape which has replicated across all tech space and normalizes this sort of immoral behavior. The powerful are enriched so there are no institutions left to fight for citizens. In fact, all moral discussions are deflected by trying to make it a legal issue. Unless of course it's a moral issue they agree with, in which case your values are hate and they'll codify it with legal force without debate. Your values are trash. Their values are right. And they will kill you or impoverish you if you challenge them. If this essay is noticed, it will not be addressed with college level rhetoric mapping intellectual honesty. My character will be assassinated and despite my eloquence, I won't be allowed a fair debate... because I would win. Just like how the government would be indicted if the public was allowed to have open discussion about the Twitter files (or World War 3).
Are all programmers anti-human? No, but they almost all serve anti-human forces and should be considered something like a moral enemy combatant. In programmer culture, anti-humanism is encouraged. How to fight them? Those who are peaceful can withhold expertise and cooperation. The communists and socialists like to say that crime is an act of class warfare. Don't you see, that's why they have empathy for everyone but you. Those more aggressive will withhold public safety. This is already happening. I advocate nothing, but I interrogate tech-money logic and I find a symmetry they are unwilling to grant. And I see that society agrees, which is why violence is on the rise. Tech and government have the power so they must take the blame. The same stubbornness with which they (Biden crime family, Cargill, MIC, Big Pharma, etc) attack Russia with Ukraine, despite push-back, is the same stubbornness they have with their goals to be immortal and control all of us. These are the people who think their values are worth World War 3... and remember, they think our lives are worth nothing. These are the people who consider World War 3 a moral imperative, regardless of the risks incurred. These are the people who censor and gaslight you (Twitter), but expect you not to hold them to account when they've been proved to demonstrably lie (Twitter files again). The Russians reacted to their provocations with World War 3. What would be the domestic corollary then?
PS: Read The Anti-Humans to see how Romanian Communism provided the template: http://www.colchestercollection.com/titles/A/anti-humans.html
The culture you describe is wealth-extractive through cleverness. It is anti-moral.
Morality is patterns of human engagement which stabilize a society in the long term, so that it can work together in-concert.
Michael Hudson, intelllectual papa of the petrodollar (accidentally) describes his economic history theory that the cime for which Jesus was crucified was his advocacy of "Jubilee", periodic elimination of debts and slave-status. In the previous 200-300 years a creditor-class had taken over, and civil wars had just been fought in Egypt and Greece over debt. The creditor-class won, and the Roman law was like Greek law, favorable to creditors. People became debt-slaes, and women/children got sold into slavery. That's what "not coveting your neighbor's wife" reportedly refers to.
Debt at interest ("usury") grows faster than material wealth, and grows relentlessly, creating debt-slaves and chattel-slaves.
Such societies are weakened by the diversion of human talent away from constructive public endeavor. Kings and religious leaders used to forgive debts periodically (most of the debts were to them) in order to maintain a healthy society and economy.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/12/michael-hudson-died-debt-not-sins.html