Balaji Srinivasan
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And always try to figure out, okay, how can we come to a win-win relationship?
How can you prosper and we prosper?
Because capitalism is positive sum, right?
That's why I'm an internationalist and a capitalist.
I try to work across borders and so on and so forth.
Nevertheless, some people are simply not interested in dialogue.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Some people just want to print fake news.
You know, there's an unnamed journo, I'm not going to name the journo, who said, let me see if I can quote it, like, that's why we want to see these CEOs killed, right?
You know, what was it?
I'm just going to quote without the...
said, and people wonder why we want these executives dead, okay?
So the anti-tech terrorism, right, of firebombing Teslas, of, you know, shooting, you know, the Luigi left of shooting Brian Thompson, the shooting of, you know, the Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house, that kind of stuff.
Those people have been radicalized in such a way that, yes, it's still important to post the true information out there.
But also, you know, at the time they're like foaming at the mouth, yelling at you, certainly let alone shooting at you.
You can't reason with them.
Right.
So that kind of person, you know.
A lot of tech people really underestimate the level of anger out there, just to talk about this for a second.
I think the technologist is the capitalist of the 21st century.