This is tech bros recycling the same exact structure but making it about getting billionaires to fund their latest "Uber but for AI-powered false advertising."

It's like if Flock wrote a version of 1984 where the heroic protagonist was trying to rise up against a regime of local activist groups who opposed installing Flock's mass surveillance products.

I, for one, feel a lot of ick at the foundational functions of both systems. Icky stuff, it’s got to be done, it’s never pleasant or unambiguous, it brings out (and rewards) perverse behaviors, the decisions have high stakes for individual supplicants but the system itself is indifferent...

And so both seem to try and slather lipstick on their ick by way of ever-thicker layers of bureaucratic (and often self-contradictory) “tweaks,” in an attempt to correct for past icky outcomes…

I agree that an individual family’s fate at the hands of a government (with its ever-looming monopoly on violence) feels to me much more morally weighty than somebody’s, you know, get-rich-quick business enterprise. But I get how the whole “startup” system functions by making it feel totalizing and weighty to participants.