
Here are 10 ways we can all beat the Tech Bro Billionaires.
It seems down sometimes, but we have these 10 things where we beat the Tech Bros like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and Elon Musk hands down, each and every day. Inspired by Wealth Inequality guru @garyseconomics
How we can all BEAT the Tech Bro Billionaires
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Hiya, this is another taking-the-dog-for-a-walk kind of ramble, and uh... I... I'm just going to share to camera how I'm just getting really annoyed at the tech bros at the moment.
And I don't know if it's player hating.
It probably is.
But there's this idea that we've got to now bow down to the billionaires.
I mean, that's always been the case, but it's like they've kind of forgotten themselves, and they—it's like they're over-reaching. And it's like they—they now want public congratulations from us.
Uh, you—you know, there they all are in the front row, lording it over us—scuzzy dopamine addicts that they've made their billions on.
They're there.
We're not.
They're there with the money that we paid, that we don't have anymore.
They're there, all on the dollars that we've provided for them.
Do we get any thanks for that?
No.
But I don't think it's healthy for me to be, uh, obsessed by the tech bros.
Maybe it's a male thing. Maybe it's a dad thing.
Can't help noticing.
So, I was—I recorded a video the other day about being under the thumb of the tech bros.
The thing I didn't put in was that they're not—they're not family men, are they?
It's ironic, really, because they've kind of made their billions from wrecking family life, which is our fault.
We're the problem in this—for being scuzzy dopamine addicts.
But it's their products that have kind of helped... well, it hasn't exactly reunited the family, has it?
And this—what—what I'm worried about is that this observation sounds, uh, bitter. Or maybe resentful.
Maybe it is.
But, um, I'm trying to be objective.
I'm just—I just want to notice it, because the more people I talk to, the more friends I talk to, they're all starting to think the same thing.
It's not good news for them.
Uh, they think their brand is at an all-time high, like their stock.
And I'm recording this in early 2025.
You're watching this in the future by definition, so you know how that all maps out—how it all works out.
But from here, at time of recording, it's not working out in the way that the billionaires—the tech billionaires—think it's working out.
They think everything's peachy and it's going to last forever.
There are seeds of discontent.
And it's ironic that I'm sharing this, actually, on a tech platform.
I'm fully aware that I'm part of the problem.
It's like all pretence at balance has gone.
It's always been like this.
It's just been hidden in the past.
And now that everything's open, there's something a bit unseemly about the tech bros—how—how they're conducting themselves.
Obviously, they've got to where they are from their neurodiversity.
Nothing wrong with that.
I'm neurodiverse myself.
And they've got there through a complete lack of humility... or self-control.
Hence the, uh, lack of a family, I suspect.
But this... like, it's got to the point now where they go, "Ah, we can do anything. We can literally do anything we like.
"Want to put—want to put a Wi-Fi router up in the sky?
"Yeah, of course! That's mine. I'm—I'm doing that.
"You can't do that because you're a scummy dopamine addict.
"I get to do that because my brain is wired to not be affected by the code that I write."
And it is coding, isn't it?
All of this has come from—the tech billionaires have got there through their neurodiverse ability to write programs that ironically impact neurodiverse people like me—to feel completely overwhelmed by it.
To feel completely, uh, inadequate.
It's exactly like in the 1800s—how Victorian gentlemen in this country would look upon the poor as if it's their fault for not being able to afford the products that we are, uh, releasing.
Ironically, it's like, "Well, we've given these products for free, and you're using them, so what—what are you complaining about?
"It's time for you to pay that subscription, by the way."
I want there to be some kind of redemption—something that—that doesn't feel like bellyaching or—or complaining.
And my wife wrote this.
This list.
This list is brilliant.
I'm going to make a video on this just by itself.
I—I think this—this made me feel better.
So she wrote 10 ways you can compete with rich people.
And by "rich people," I think she meant—not—not like people who are well-off—but, you know, the tech bro billionaires, basically.
And here's the list of ten.
Or should we just go through them?
Yeah.
The first one is mental health.
I'm taking a wild and crazy gamble that, uh, some of the tech bros' mental health isn't probably the best that it could be.
I don't think that's a controversial, uh, supposition. A controversial view.
I also could not see a tech bro just doing this—taking the dog out for a walk at 4:30.
Uh, in nature.
The nature that's left.
This is all—by the way—this is all going to be developed into an industrial park, which is why we've got these boards.
Uh, look, there's a sign over here.
I think the rain's washed it off.
Oh, there you go—Reptile receptor site.
"Please do not move the fence."
So it's going to—basically, the reptiles—I don't know how it works.
Uh, leave me a comment if you know how a reptile receptor site works.
But because they're doing, like, full-on construction work over there, sometime this year, we've got this receptor site for reptiles.
So yeah, the one—one—one way we can beat the tech billionaire bros is by looking after our mental health.
So for me, that's talking this out to you.
On here.
Uh, the platforms owned by the tech billionaires.
And also... I can—I can shut my eyes for 40 minutes.
And the—the—the tech bro billionaires can't charge me for that yet.
I don't think.
And they can't take that away from me as well.
So—so mental health is something that we've got to—to beat the—the billionaires.
Second one is physical health.
The tech bro billionaires can't take the physical health away from us.
I think I need to do a bit more than walking Casper twice a day.
Uh, I was going to say I need to do something that—that makes me out of breath.
But this—this is making me out of breath right now.
Now, I want to go back to martial arts.
I miss the martial arts.
And the tech bro billionaires do not own martial arts.
Or—or those kinds of physical activities.
Physical activity that actually involves community.
That's something I really want to, uh, to do.
But anyway, we've got that.
The tech bro billionaires can't take that away from us.
Yet.
Third one is well-being.
It's a bit of a—I'm—I'm—I'm really grateful for this list.
I think this one's a bit catch-all, but we can't look to the tech bro billionaires for our well-being.
Our well-being being all of the things on this list.
And just, you know, just feeling good about ourselves.
Stepping away from the Instagram feed to just look at what's real and the things that are good.
Kindness.
Oh, if the tech bro billionaires could, uh, make a dime from kindness, they would.
But they don't.
No.
It's not in their coding.
How do you code for that?
And how do you—how do you create advertiser return on kindness?
It's such a, uh, a basic thing, and it's a choice.
It's a hard choice sometimes.
We can compete with the billionaires with kindness.
I—I think we've already got a few steps ahead of them.
Number five on the list is no stress.
These are ways we can compete with the billionaires.
We can de-stress.
Ironically, again, from stepping away from the tech bro billionaire products—which stress me out.
Number six: happiness.
Here’s the thing with the tech bro billionaires—they don't—they don't look very happy, do they?
Like, they're at, uh, President What's-His-Name's inauguration.
Uh, they don't—they're not like smiling, smiling.
They're not like joyful happy, are they?
They're like, "Oh, we've got to be here," kind of look.
Hangdog expression.
It's the kind of expression that you see on someone driving a 4x4 Porsche.
Porsche SUV.
I've never seen anyone in a Porsche SUV look happy, have you?
Please leave me a comment if you've seen someone, like, being genuinely—you know when someone's happy?
You can tell from their, uh, their demeanour, their face, their posture.
I've never seen anyone in a—in most 4x4s—premium 4x4s—looking happy.
It just sounds schmalzy, but I bounced on the trampoline with the kids.
I can't see a tech bro billionaire doing that.
Either because they've got too many kids and no access to them—or no family.
I felt truly happy just bouncing away on a trampoline with the kids.
That is something I—I think I'm well ahead of the tech bro billionaires on.
And I think you might be too.
Family support.
Do the tech bro billionaires spend time with their families?
I—I don't know.
Obviously, many of them don't have family of their own.
But they are of a family.
Has that family got their backs unconditionally?
I don't know.
I know I—I do.
Had to take—take, uh, a member of my family to the minor injuries clinic.
They call it the Urgent—what do they call it—the Urgent Treatment Centre.
It was so nice.
Obviously, he was in pain.
Well, he wasn't in pain, because he didn't feel the cut.
But obviously, it wasn't the best of circumstances.
But actually, just spending time together—hanging out in, uh, an emergency room—it felt really good.
I loved it.
I don't think the tech bro billionaires would do that.
I don't think they'd be there.
I don't think they'd have the time.
I don't even think they probably know what to do in those kinds of situations.
Would they just, kind of, drive the parent around to—?
Would they just wander off?
Drive the family member around to A&E?
I don't think they would.
So these are ways that we can compete with the tech bro billionaires.
Friendship.
Like, proper friendship.
Not tech bro-ship.
Um, which is a pretty vile competition by the look of them.
Those sour faces in that front row.
Have they got proper friends?
I don't know.
And I don't care.
I know that I do.
And I know that you probably do as well.
And if you don't, this is definitely a way you can compete with the, uh, the billionaires.
Gratitude.
Let's just remember for a moment Apple's idea—their in-house idea for gratitude.
For, you know, just inanimate objects.
In that crusher.
They go—
That is Apple's idea of gratitude.
They don't understand.
Because of their wiring—to be coders rather than community-minded human beings—it's like gratitude does not come easy to them.
Uh, so it's definitely a way that you could beat the tech bro billionaires.
It's quite a long one for number ten: forgiveness, empathy, humanity, and community.
Yeah.
I don't need to explain that one, do I?
I don't need to explain any of them.
It's a brilliant list.
What else did she write?
It's getting a bit dark, isn't it?
Should I go this way?
Most of the above are free and accessible to everyone.
Some of the above go hand in hand.
If we nurture the above and look after ourselves, we can have the poorest job but be the wealthiest in terms of well-being.
This is how the poor win.
This is what sets the poor people apart from most rich people.
Is Elon Musk rich in any of the list?
There's an inequality between rich and poor.
But being rich—being able to live a luxury lifestyle—does not buy you any of the above.
Yeah.
It's true.
And they just don't look happy!
They don't look happy at all.
How much does that cost?
So ask yourself—is the current inequality a bad thing for poor people?
Should we accept our lot?
Control what we have the ability to control?
We're collectively not going to get much richer in terms of money and luxury.
That's true.
But we could get a lot poorer.
And the billionaires want to bring us down to their level.
If the billionaires want the above, they need to pay more for their stuff.
And they need to lose their collective bad influence over the rest of us.
Rich people are in charge of the world.
And they only have their best interests at heart.
Billionaires live in fear of losing their money.
Poor people are fearful because they have no money.
It affects their self-worth.
Money should not define any of us.
Billionaires and people striving for richness have ruined our economy.
Yeah.
Everything is more expensive when you're poor.
Oh yeah, she's written something else on money begets money.
Yeah, it's difficult, isn't it?
It's separating money from self-worth, which is always a tricky one.
So I feel better.
I do feel like I can take on the tech billionaires this year.
On this list.
Not on their device or platform that's kind of rigged to pay out the dopamine.
What do you think?
It still feels like player hating and whining.
But I've got kids I can hug at the moment, so that's good.
And I've got a family that can hug me.
Maybe you have friends or family that can hug you.
I don't know.
What's it like hugging a billionaire?
I—I don't think they get many hugs.
And I—I don't think they're that bothered about not getting the hugs, uh, 'cause it gets in the way of the algorithm and the coding.
Anyway, this is—wow.
This was quite a dog walk, wasn't it?
Thank you for any comments that you leave.
Always interesting to—to hear what you think.
And thank you for your thumbs up or hitting the subscribe button.
Because, you know, we got to feed this algorithm.
I feel like I'm the virus in War of the Worlds—that I can just help us to bond together and, uh, do more on this list of ten.
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