Dorsey, Musk and the Freedom Loving Billionaires

Jack Dorsey Twitter Founder

Richard Mellor

Afscme Local 444, retired
GED/HEO

4-19-22

 

Maybe Francis Fukuyama was right, capitalism as represented by the US, is the apex of human civilization. Surely, Proof of this can be found in the awe inspiring art work and literature of the era. Sina Estavi, a somewhat criminally suspect Malaysian businessman paid $2.9 million for a tweet, not just any tweet, but the first tweet from the yoga loving billionaire that founded twitter, Jack Dorsey.

On purchasing the tweet, Estavi said that “This is not just a tweet! I think years later people will realize the true value of this tweet, like the Mona Lisa painting.”

 

The contents of Dorsey’s tweet reveal the genius behind the man’s character and working people throughout the world are discussing it. The tweet read, “Just setting up my twttr”. I was in Safeway yesterday and it was the only thing the checkers were talking about, they could hardly draw the baked beans over the scanner which is a real problem because they have lost the ability to count and even add simple numbers due to the new technology of the past 25 years, that saves labor time, maintains profits and destroys brain cells.

The Tweet that Changed the World

 

It was the same at Costco last week as customers were heard voicing concern when Estavi’s efforts to re-sell the tweet fell short of the $2.9 million, as the highest bid was $14,000. The tweet was converted to a nonfungible token last year which allowed Dorsey to sell it. This has sent shockwaves among mycologists and the Mycological Society of America has threatened to sue and a paving crew fixing the street I happened to walk by urged them to do so. This is truly a great moment in history, workers discussing this issue on the job and on the streets and communities. It shows the advantage of the free market over a planned rational economic system that produces for social need. What a silly idea that turned out to be.

 

Dorsey, like Musk who is trying to buy Twitter, has connections in the US government and took a trip to Iraq with Jared Cohen, a businessman and former advisor to Condoleezza Rice. Julian Assange, the journalist who published US war crimes in Iraq, called Jared Cohen, Googles “Director of Regime Change” in his book, When Google Met Wikileaks. In that book, Assange wrote of Eric Schmidt and Google’s bosses:

By all appearances, Googles bosses genuinely believe in the civilizing power of enlightened multinational corporations, and they see this mission as continuous with the shaping of the world according to the better judgement of the ‘benevolent superpower’. They will tell you that open mindedness is a virtue, but all perspectives that challenge the exceptionalist drive at the heart of American foreign policy will remain invisible to them. This is impenetrably banality of “don’t be evil”. They believe they are doing good and that is the problem. P 35

 

“Don’t Be Evil” was Google’s unofficial motto that was abandoned in 2018.

 

Elon Musk, who should thank the lord he was born a white man in South Africa, (his claim that he holds the record for most overtime worked in a lifetime that enabled him to accumulate $200 billion is not true)  also believes open mindedness is a virtue apparently. If he gets a hold of Twitter, what he calls the “de Facto town square”, he wants to ensure free speech is paramount, “it’s very important for there to be an inclusive area for free speech “. Not everyone has earned the right to free speech under Musk’s definition, Tesla workers, both on the job and off are excluded especially if they mention the word "union” at work. In these cases, Musk joins his class allies Bezos at Amazon and Schultz at Starbucks punishing those who exercise free speech as do other workplaces owned by US oligarchs or anywhere else they can get away with it.

 

Writing one’s thoughts does help clear things up a bit at times. This has helped me come to a decision on Fukuyama, I think he was off his rocker.