05-11-2023 09:30 via theguardian.com

It’s easy to be dazzled by the super-rich, but don’t believe that they’ll do the right thing | Will Hutton

Silicon Valley tech showmen like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried can blind us with science. A little more scepticism would not go amissGreat wealth has always signified status, but today tech wealth also signifies having special futuristic insights denied the rest of us, which the Silicon Valley billionaires are all too ready to dispense and we are too ready to receive. Thus the spectacle of the British prime minister fawning over the banal utterances of the world’s richest man as propheci
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