"citizens on their best behavior" "big brother is always watching"

Don't sound very different to me

billionaires and their super important opinions eh? having money is a personality trait apparently

And who will decide what is good and bad behaviour? Hmm? And what advantage will society as a whole get from this?

“People behave themselves in a panopticon”-rich people

Firstly no, people don’t. Second, they go crazy in one. And third, this basically breaks down the threads of both community and individualism to create a miserable nightmare

billionaires who talk like this should immediately be committed. he's clearly far gone, just fucking take him away.

Larry, AI didn't stop you from stealing an island from the people of Hawaii

Wait, isn't this the father of Megan Ellison, the owner of Annapurna Interactive? The woman who just made her entire team so mad they quit.

Is this what Ted Kaczyinski (the Unabomber) warned against?

1984

Maybe billionaires should be filmed and streamed continuously, since their behavior has such a big impact on the world. If they don't like it maybe we shouldn't allow them to control such incredible assets. I'm sure billionaires have nothing sketchy to hide, right? What we will see is probably how they are hard working people who are not at all detached from normal folks. Right?

Ever notice that Larry Ellison looks like Satan?

He looks like if Tim Allen upped his coke intake

By "citizens" he means poor people, naturally, and by "best behaviour" he means obedience to authority.

in bad country the ruling class uses AI scoring system to ensure the compliance of the workers

"[Stupid rich person shit]"

--Larry Ellison, soon to be major shareholder of Paramount

I aim to misbehave

"We're going to have supervision," Ellison said. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."

And if we entertained the idea that this was true and the core focus of this idea (it's not) what do we think the chances are that the "appropriate person" will be one of two things:

1. Another cop

2. A subscription service digital surveillance company with that cop as a client that they report back to for "internal investigation", as long as the bill is paid.

And I guarantee that billionaire Larry Ellison blithely believes that he'll be exempt - that all of this surveillance will just be used against the little people. And he's almost certainly right.

The first XKCD that comes to mind

Ellision sounds like the kind of guy that wants an unstoppable army of robot swarms.

Representative Jamie Raskin recently brought up the term neo-monarchy.

Emboldened oligarch in a plutocracy.

But also kleptocracy and really a kakistocracy disguised outwardly as an aristocracy or neo-monarchy as Raskin said.

Outside of just saying "America" or "Capitalism" How do we combine all of this into one satisfying, effective term?

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. - Ursula K Le Guin

I say a single bullet at the right place and time can ensure 'this stupid motherfucker never has anything else to say ever' | Business Insider India

Only the fact that he is able to say shit like that out loud is a sign of a rotting society. People are ok with being their slaves

"Will it blend?" - in today's episode, Larry Ellison, massive waste of skin and resources.

Fuck you Larry.

sounds like a nazi

Put yourself on public camera streams first as a test. I bet this guy is not always on his best behavior

He’s voicing what every billionaire and government official already thinks. Call me pessimist but I believe it’s unavoidable. VPNs are seen as “tools to overcome government bans to access illegal websites” in so many countries, hence getting banned. Access to mainstream websites also getting harder and harder when on VPN. People hosting Tor exit nodes are living in fear of police raids.

Even with some little amount of privacy protecting measures, websites start to act strangely or do not work, and the amount of websites like this increases every day. As protecting our privacy becomes a bigger and bigger effort, more people will give up, strengthening the arguments against it. Eventually we’ll hit big brother levels.

So the Panopticon. The hypothetical prison that even people in the 1800s thought would be a human rights violation to build because it was such an extreme form of psychological torture.

My best behavior is to be on Larry Ellison's front yard with pitchforks burning torches and guillotines.

Private jets . They’ve all got multiple front yards & none of us can afford pitchforks But small aeroplanes, those are weak. & these parasites just looove em

“Citizens” 🙄 Not every person is a citizen; I’ve got a pet peeve about this.