Your tax dollars at work.
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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have they tried just being less shitty? its free
I'm glad I played cyberpunk 2077 bc this is playing out exactly like a cyberpunk dystopia
Just without the cool tech
they promised Delamain and all we got is Brendan
Waymo 😩
So just figure out who’s on the security team. They can have their minds changed.
Here's hoping they keep living in fear.
Good, now let's home that one of their personal securty goons turns against them.
Glad to see someone that thinks similarly to me. The more goons, the more potential holes!
Think how truly life changing it would be, if $1m just popped into your bank account one day - you could pay off your mortgage, buy a new car, start a business, or take your family on a vacation to remember.
Mark Zuckerberg could do that each and every single day of the year…
…36 times over…
…just from a 5% return on his current net worth!
And if you worked from 16 til retirement (67 ish in more and more countries), 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, having a few weeks off...
and earnt $1,000,000 (1 million) an hour -- you'd still not have earnt 1/3rd of what Musk has.
For comparison, most in "rich" countries, earn $15-60 an hour.
The truly rich countries are those where the wage slave system as a concept is entirely abolished, in favour of a gift economy.
Richness is measured not in dollars, euros, or even renminbi; but in the availability of basic needs such as food, water, housing, education, and a healthy environment.
"I could create a better, safer world for myself and everyone else, building genuine goodwill from my fellow human beings... nah. I'll just triple-down on the alienation and paranoia."
The number of private security firms the FT has been able to interview tells its own story, and their backgrounds too: experienceD, skilled staff leaving the FBI to set up business as entourage for our new feudal overlords.
People are losing faith in society as having anything approaching meritocracy. Rising to the top is no longer credible. And it’s not just security spending, it’s all that work on their mythos and origin stories promoting the idea that they are ubermensch.
It fails because there is a top. Democracies, where being a high profile politician is just another job, are mostly healthy.
All those tech tools and they still have to hire humans to make them safe. Hope the help don’t turn on the greedy tech bosses /s.
I wonder what companies provide such services. Is it more private army like Blackwater or some regular VIP security company.
Firms like Blackwater usually start as private VIP security. Gotta build that rep.