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Last night, I listened to Charli XCX's new song, 'SS26'. She's super doomer in it, singing 'we're walking on a runway straight to hell, nothing's gonna save us art, fashion or film'. And I thought, damn even rich celebrities are feelin it.
So if even money and fame doesn't insulate you, what does? Earlier this week, Eric Schmidt, the Google co-founder, was booed during a commencement speech in Arizona. The youth have definitively turned against tech. 20 years ago, tech was the silver bullet; a creator of abundance that would free us. Now, we realise it might be used to trap us in a 'permanent underclass'. The only ones that seem to be 'winning' are our new tech overlords.
The closer you are to them, generally, the more you seem pleased with the state of affairs. Which makes the tech workers like the 8000 Meta discarded last week real wild cards. They've devoted years of their lives building for an infrastructure that ironically is now going to toss them aside. So will they try to cling onto their proximity to power, or change allegiances? Perhaps Charli's partnership with Nothing is the answer. If money and fame don't save you, proximity to the machine might.
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