🤦🏿♂️ No. This is not true. Extreme wealth does not turn you into a fascist.
White people that don't know anything, but that think that they do, and don't talk to or listen to enough Black people, believe this garbage.
Thiel and Sacks wrote a book on their beliefs way back when they were at Stanford. Musk has always been like this. They've always been alt-right.
Mackenzie Scott became extremely wealthy at the exact same time and place as Bezos. And yet her views haven't changed. Melinda Gates' views have not changed. LeBron is not a fascist. Craig Newmark didn't go fash.
The ultra wealthy fashy dudes have been hanging out in the same 4chan boards since when they were SWEs and SDEs, to when they were founders and CEOs, to when they were VCs.
They've been like this. Y'all just don't listen to Black people.
@mekkaokereke more defensible version of Klein’s argument: extreme wealth is one enabling vector of fash radicalization. The 2 things certainly don’t have zero to do with each other; fascists worship immense wealth and the immensely wealthy. Their lack of worship Mackenzie Scott, or Soros, etc. isn’t hard to fathom; to the fash mindset those ppl aren’t legit owners of wealth bc of their demographics (which is one thing about which I & ppl I know *have* listened to Black folks)