How Silicon Valley Shapes Our Future
In such a worldview, politics and policymakers are the great enemy because they slow down progress. “Rules are made to cement existing structures,” Thrun says. “We are trying to circumvent them.”
Boldfaced emphasis added by me.
He’s absolutely ignorant of social history and doesn’t even realize it.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Their findings led to thirty-eight new laws regulating labor in New York state, and gave each of them a reputation as leading progressive reformers working on behalf of the working class. In the process, they changed Tammany’s reputation from mere corruption to progressive endeavors to help the workers. New York City’s Fire Chief John Kenlon told the investigators that his department had identified more than 200 factories where conditions made a fire like that at the Triangle Factory possible. The State Commissions’s reports helped modernize the state’s labor laws, making New York State “one of the most progressive states in terms of labor reform.” New laws mandated better building access and egress, fireproofing requirements, the availability of fire extinguishers, the installation of alarm systems and automatic sprinklers, better eating and toilet facilities for workers, and limited the number of hours that women and children could work. In the years from 1911 to 1913, sixty of the sixty-four new laws recommended by the Commission were legislated with the support of Governor William Sulzer.
Boldfaced emphasis added by me.
The overarching “existing structure” of everything is human beings. If you don’t understand that, you shouldn’t have the power to do anything.
Previously here:
More Reasons To Despise The Techies
The Silicants
Sellouts, Shills, Con Men, And Egress Pushers
