> The creator of the @elonjet Twitter bot created quite a controversy last week when Elon Musk, the infamous union-busting billionaire heir to an apartheid emerald fortune, offered the bot’s creator a $5,000 reward for shutting the bot down.
https://botwiki.org/blog/poll-bots-and-public-data/
I followed links from #SonaliKolhatkar on #CounterPunch to a #DougCopeland article that had me thinking #ElonMusk was just a really smart guy from a middle class suburban family, but from South Africa. Sycophants!

> ... the wealthiest people on the planet appear to be rather small-minded idiot savants who share a common disdain for the rest of us... “their education about the future comes from zombie movies and science fiction shows.”... the question that vexes them most of all is how, in a disastrous future, will they control the guards.. to protect their hoardings, then our economic system is a farce.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/04/tech-billionaires-are-actually-dumber-than-you-think/
#TechBillionaires #TechBros #SonaliKolhatkar #DouglasRushkoff #CounterPunch

> ... [Her] great contribution to economic justice.. exposing the cult of #PositiveThinking.. We concluded from #NickelAndDimed that people were not making it in America.. we.. [saw] through.. #BrightSided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America that the economy was.. unimpeded.. putting a smiley face on #inequality... The alternative.. blame one’s #employer.. the #USEconomy.. [being] dangerous to.. #CorporateAmerica.
- https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/13/how-barbara-ehrenreich-exposed-the-positive-thinking-industry/
#BarbaraEhrenreich #SonaliKolhatkar

@bsmall2@nerdica.net
> #Colombia “has one of the highest levels of #IncomeInequality in the world,” and the second-highest in #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean, as per the #WorldBank. Further, more than 40 percent of #Colombians live below the #poverty line..To news outlets like Barron’s and #Bloomberg, such statistics are unimportant. To the #StateDepartment, this is apparently what a “vibrant democracy with a growing market-oriented economy” looks like.
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/colombia-once-a-pro-u-s-conservative-bastion-turns-left/
#SonaliKolhatkar