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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    731·
    11 months ago

    Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman for those who don’t want to click through.

    And I have no idea which I would choose to face off from those four, let alone who would win.

    • Diplomjodler@feddit.deEnglish
      671·
      11 months ago

      You could put them in a sack and hit the sack with a stick. You’d never hit the wrong guy.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        11 months ago

        I like this idea much better than picking one of them as the worst person in tech for 2023. Can we do the stick beating instead?

        • Diplomjodler@feddit.deEnglish
          01·
          11 months ago

          But we definitely need to have Zuck in there too. And maybe Thiel, as a special guest.

    • Magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovhEnglish
      141·
      11 months ago

      No matter who wins we all lose. That’s kind of the point whenever these guys turn up.

    • Altofaltception@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      11 months ago

      To make things slightly easier it’s Musk v Thiel and Bezos v Altman.

      In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.

      In the second matchup I would pick Bezos for the larger impact he has had on the world.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        282·
        11 months ago

        I’m with you on the second, but I would have a really hard time with the first because Musk is more overtly a piece of shit, but Thiel has had so much influence over the years, including elevating Elon Musk to the position where he is today. I guess if it’s the worst of 2023 and we’re restricting it solely to what we know they’ve said and done in 2023, it would be Musk. But I think overall, it is probably Thiel just because there wouldn’t be an Elon Musk anyone had heard about without Peter Thiel.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        11 months ago

        In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.

        But Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is in itself subservient to Theil’s overarching political goals. One has been in the limelight more, but the other has caused more harm overall.

      • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        This is the 2023 matchup. You don’t consider Jordan’s performance at UNC when determining their championship status this year. Heck, despite the past damage done, i don’t think. Bezos, for his 2023 tech fuckery, should have made it out of the first round.

        By the same metric, Musk easily tops Thiel first 2023 and is the clear shoo-in as champion of the worst.

    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Theil wants a techno libertarian oligarchy with no regulations ala Blade Runner.

      Musk wants the rich to escape to Mars while destroying earth and dooming the poor’s.

      Bezos wants to send the poor’s into space along with heavy industry and turn earth into a rich person paradise ala Black Mirror “Fifteen Million Merits”.

      Altman is just a shitty rich person in tech wasting precious resources to teach a computer to create porn. Becaue we all know that’s what 99% of people do and will use AI for. He’s also a prepper which means he’s a selfish cunt.

      If I had to pick just one it would be Theil. I think the man is insidious while the rest are more in your face.

      Ranked choice would be Theil, Musk, Bezos then Altman.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        He’s not really as bad as the other three, but he did take a nonprofit company and turn it into a multibillion dollar profit machine which has a massive carbon and fresh water footprint.

        • Nurgle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Also some view ChatGPT (and the other “AIs”) as massive plagiarism machines.

  • Pyramid8058@kbin.social
    353·
    11 months ago

    I think I’d say Thiel is worse than Musk. He supports anti-gay politicians while being gay himself. Tax cuts are more important than having the law treat people as human beings.

    It’s possible that Musk might fail to understand exactly how shitty he’s being due to his autism, I’m pretty sure Thiel knows he’s fucking people over and doesn’t care. Also the whole bloodboy thing.

    • Neato@kbin.social
      16·
      11 months ago

      He’s small time. He’s ruining one big-ish social platform. While people like Zuck are ruining many!

      • kaleid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Can’t argue with that. But I have to admit that I miss reddit, mate. Hence my question.

      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        11 months ago

        Information is cached on servers in the fediverse through connections. You can’t just make an empty server and harvest all of the data. Now if you unleash millions of accounts on the Fediverse like threads is doing, then you have access to everything.

          • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
            28·
            11 months ago

            So what exactly is your point? That we should just give up that corporations own everything, period, sorry, bud?

            If that’s the case, go back to Reddit and sign up for threads.

      • bruhduh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        11 months ago

        I agree with you, but in 2023 unity fuck up was one of the major events cause most developers used unity and still continue using it

  • Grangle1@lemm.eeEnglish
    75·
    11 months ago

    Of the four I’ll take Bezos. Elon says controversial stuff but most of his businesses are legit. He owns Twitter now but he didn’t create that monster. Altman opened up a can of worms with AI but I do believe he initially had some good intentions with it. I don’t even know who Peter Thiel is. Bezos is just an evil corporate suit and Amazon will do anything for money.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Thiel is associated with musk, and a pretty awful guy in his own right. The short version is he’s a billionaire techno-fascist that funds political campaigns for people like Trump. Here’s a video for more stuff about him if you’re curious.

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        3·
        11 months ago

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      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        11 months ago

        He’s executive chair of the board of directors, what are you talking about?

        • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Jassy is the one steering the boat now, and it’s been rechristened as the SS No More Innovation

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Musk shouldn’t have won against Ellison. Musk is an uncontrolled trainwreck, sure, but Ellison is a highly controlled and effective lawnmower. He’s just better at not being known.

  • FuyuhikoDate@silkky.pubEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    So much names i never ever heard before and i dont wanna look up, after knowing what a fucker musk is (also he wil win)

  • Gravitywell@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Well if the title is for just 2023 I think musk has it, if we take overall negative impact in a lifetime then I’m not sure but musk is probably not as bad.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    11 months ago

    The worst person in tech is a choice between a bunch of people who are working together to make things worse for everyone else?