Facebook, another uber-capitalist experiment?
A very interesting article from the Guardian regarding Facebook, its founders and board members. The article speculates that the real face behind Facebook is the 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher Peter Thiel.
In Thiel’s virtual worlds: the desired object is irrelevant; all you need to know is that human beings will tend to move in flocks. Hence financial bubbles. Hence the enormous popularity of Facebook.
Thiel, like Rupert Murdoch, is against tax.
‘He also likes the globalisation of digital culture because it makes the banking overlords hard to attack: “You can’t have a workers’ revolution to take over a bank if the bank is in Vanuatu,” he says. ‘
any way have a look see………
