Balaji Srinivasan

Podkolachnik, okay?

Podkolachnik encompassed poor peasants, collective farm members, or even non-peasants opposing grain requisition of farm seizures, irrespective of socioeconomic status.

So even if you were not a capitalist in any way, even if you were not a small businessman or kulak in any way, even if you yourself were poor, if you said, hey, taking these farms to farmers is going to result in a famine, then you were an enemy of the people too.

Okay, this is how psychotic the whole thing got.

Pod Kalachnik's term, where, why is it important?

Because, see, this guy, I'm not sure if he was saying it sarcastically or not, but he's like, first they came for the billionaires and I did not speak out because I was not a billionaire.

Then they came for the millionaires.

Well, actually, most of the violence in the 20th century was not on the basis of race, it was on the basis of class.

Okay?

So they went after the capitalists.

Point is, today, the, you know, he's saying this, I couldn't tell if he was saying it sarcastically or not, but if you go back one, that's why I posted this, because that's exactly, if you go back one, just hit back,

Yeah, that's exactly what happened in the Soviet Union.

First, they came for the millionaires, and then they came for the podkoloshniks, which is anybody who opposed them stealing all the property.

Eric, right?

Yeah.

It's a good term because it literally puts a thumb on exactly an episode in history where that did happen and millions of people were killed in that order, right?

It's not a typical thing.

It actually happened, unfortunately.

Okay.

Now, the issue is today, why do I say that technology is a capitalist of the 21st century?