No, he hated monopolies etc too, and this was before computers were serious. Think more "Mike Rowe" and running your own single machinist factory making "Your one widget."
People that actually make things are hated (envied, perhaps) by the Ivory Tower, and the Power Brokers. When you shut the effing country ... if we'd done just a little bit more we'd be Venezuela in a month.
Musk talked about this in his latest Joe Rogan appearance too. He expressed how he doesn't care for people like Warren Buffet, and mentioned how we need to get back to supporting manufacturing and making actual physical things again.
Not sure why people are knocking Heinlein. Served in the Navy. His book Starship Trooper was a good essay on leadership the purpose of soldiers and war. Basically boils down Clausewitz in about 3 pages in there. Also preditcs youth crime and delinquancy. Along with a few goodies like optical matching guidance systems. Not bad for something written in the fifties. Not sure what happened after that.
It could be a difference of interpretation but when I see "creating," anything with the suffix of -crat (to rule, or rule by) and -archy (government and again, rule) I assume that's not what Heinlein meant.
You've let them convince you that some people in tech know everything. From all we know, the people who know how to fix the world are retired at 41, fishing in their lakehouse in the mountains somewhere, or in the white house, or screaming about interdementional aliens.
So... technocrat oligarchy?
No thanks.
We don't need the "elites" to save us. I know a lot of guys who will never have to work a day in their life, and they are completely useless.
On the other hand, the more middle-class people I know are far more thrifty and self-reliant. Overwhelmingly so, in fact.
This Heinlein guy sounds like a dumbass.
No, he hated monopolies etc too, and this was before computers were serious. Think more "Mike Rowe" and running your own single machinist factory making "Your one widget."
People that actually make things are hated (envied, perhaps) by the Ivory Tower, and the Power Brokers. When you shut the effing country ... if we'd done just a little bit more we'd be Venezuela in a month.
The dems were certainly trying as hard as they could to get us there
were
?!?!?!?!
I'm in Washington. Send lawyers, money and, well, ....
Send lawyers guns and money
The shit has hit the fan
Musk talked about this in his latest Joe Rogan appearance too. He expressed how he doesn't care for people like Warren Buffet, and mentioned how we need to get back to supporting manufacturing and making actual physical things again.
Not sure why people are knocking Heinlein. Served in the Navy. His book Starship Trooper was a good essay on leadership the purpose of soldiers and war. Basically boils down Clausewitz in about 3 pages in there. Also preditcs youth crime and delinquancy. Along with a few goodies like optical matching guidance systems. Not bad for something written in the fifties. Not sure what happened after that.
It could be a difference of interpretation but when I see "creating," anything with the suffix of -crat (to rule, or rule by) and -archy (government and again, rule) I assume that's not what Heinlein meant.
You've let them convince you that some people in tech know everything. From all we know, the people who know how to fix the world are retired at 41, fishing in their lakehouse in the mountains somewhere, or in the white house, or screaming about interdementional aliens.