[SimianSci]

Sometimes, I wonder how people in the middle ages accepted the whole "Divine Right" of their ruling Kings, while simultaneously suffering under their rule.

> Larry Ellison, another hyper-informed genius business man

"King George, another royal blessed by the divine."

[vessenes]

I don't know if you're aware of this, but American markets are hyper competitive. I'd be extremely wary of any instinct to discount the skill level of any top-20 self-made billionaire industrialist, really anywhere in the world, but in the US at least, that skillset is likely heavily skewed toward business excellence.

[SimianSci]

> self-made billionaire industrialist

We've reached levels of billionaire worship that would make any court jester of the 1400's blush

[afavour]

> American markets are hyper competitive

Eh. Brand new markets, perhaps. But established markets in the US favor incumbents and encourage monopoly.

[eldaisfish]

The techbro cult is filled to bursting with greedy, narcissistic people who are wholly willing to ignore evil because they expect to be the next dispensers of said evil.

You just responded to one of them.