George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, the elites are the heads of corporations.
Tech companies who are – to Sachs are kind of giving in to the woke younger staff who are putting pressure on them to say these things.
He is for the working man against the tech oligarchs as he calls them.
So there is this underlying irony that you can't get away from.
But Sachs uses the word populist.
So I used it because it basically was his effort to form an alliance between –
the tech industry, Silicon Valley, and MAGA.
I think for Silicon Valley, libertarianism has always been the default political view, but it's not a hard edged.
Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek kind of libertarianism.
It's softer.
It's a liberal libertarianism.
The issues that got support in Silicon Valley, where, by the way, I grew up before it was ever called that, pro-choice, pro-immigrant, pro-gay marriage, for socially liberal causes.
I think what happened –
was the Biden administration came in and began to push harder on issues like monopoly.
They had a much more robust antitrust posture on enforcement of laws against money laundering in the crypto industry.
They were more wary of AI, although supportive of it.
Also wanted the federal government to have a role in making sure companies were testing it for safety and sharing the results of those tests with the federal government.
So all those things, I think, began to drive security.
tech leaders and investors who were used to a free hand in their own business.
Crazy.
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