By (by Jonathan Taplin | Spears) – Bill Gates once wrote: ‘I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society.’ My new book, The End of Reality, seeks to understand four billionaire tech barons who have a very different view. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Andreessen are creating a world where ‘nothing is true and all is spectacle’.
If we are to inquire how we got to a place of radical income inequality and the looming potential for a second American Civil War, we need look no further than these four – ‘the biggest wallets paying for the most blinding lights’. Herein, I’ll call them the Technocrats, in recognition of the influence of the right-wing technocracy movement, founded in the 1930s by Elon Musk’s grandfather, Joshua Haldeman.
The kingdom of the Technocrats
The technocrats have sold – and we have bought into – the idea that they are going to deliver us a bright future / Image: Shutterstock
