Tech bros as Thoreau? No really!

[frogstar0]

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/heather-cox-richardson-and-jen-rubin

And you look at the tech bros in the present. And, you know, it's funny, I just recently compared Peter Thiel to Thoreau, which, as I always say, will infuriate people. But, you know, when Henry David Thoreau is sitting there at Walden, looking at the men around him living what he calls lives of quiet desperation.
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He is literally living on somebody else's land and he goes home for meals and somebody else does his laundry. And what he's looking at is he's looking at a community of people who are working together to construct a life for their families and their wives and their children and their husbands.
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And he's looking at it as a young man who has no ties of anything, you know, no responsibilities and saying, boy, you know, you people are really pathetic. Look at me. I'm the one who knows how to live my life. And that just seems to me to be the tech bros in a nutshell.

[Xoan]

1. Food for thought.