Mike Butcher, Editor, Pathfounders.com

Having fun going deep on Elon.

I support Russell Brand. That man is not evil.

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Ex-Deputy UK PM @nickclegg says we should stop listening to unelected tech leaders like Dario Amodei, David Sacks, and Marc Andreessen when they try to intervene in how society works: "Dario Amodei is a super smart guy. Certainly when I used to meet him, I thought he was a very likeable guy as well, but he's not a labor market economist. He doesn't know the effects on the labor market. And I just think we have this tendency constantly to listen to these tech leaders basically expound on things." "Why are we listening to David Sacks' views on how to end the war in Ukraine? He knows nothing. Or Marc Andreessen's views on how to raise children… These people don't know, and they weren't elected by anyone either." "If you want to intervene in every nook and cranny of societal debates….then go and get elected and be accountable to the rest of us." "I personally have a very almost visceral reaction against this idea that people who will accrue to themselves vast, vast amounts of wealth and power by introducing this technology into society think that somehow it's a reasonable deal to say....'We'll be really busy, we'll get paid really well, but all the rest of you, we'll pay you a little daily stipend to grow vegetables in the garden and write poetry during the day.' " "What planet are they on?"

It seems to me that democracy has on the whole worked very well in America over the last decade, and perhaps better than in any other major country in the West. National outcomes have repeatedly been responsive to underlying voter preferences on meaningful questions, and significant changes in policy have ensued. I’ve been reading Democracy in America this past week, and it’s striking how much it still rhymes nearly two centuries later.