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Clubhouse: Meeting the Tech Oligarchs Who'll Run the Future
from #237 - Buy The Dip | The Tim Dillon Show · #237
6 min
Tim describes joining the invite-only app Clubhouse and listening to VCs, tech titans, and entrepreneurs casually discuss a future of endless pandemics, permanent lockdowns, and digital control, comparing it to slaves eavesdropping on their masters.
- Tim compares meeting tech oligarchs on Clubhouse to getting shackled in a barn where slaves can ask questions to their masters about tomorrow's field work.
- One Clubhouse speaker predicts pandemics every five years, masks forever, and that everyone must stay online using tech apps because the world has fundamentally changed.
- Tech leaders discuss a digital-only future presented as inevitable, cold and calculated, with no emotional consideration for what they're imposing.
- Tim lays out the enforcement mechanism: if you get deleted from these platforms, there's nowhere else to go because they control all the infrastructure.
- Eric Weinstein is an ally against this tech oligarchy, a genuinely brilliant guy, but Tim doubts he can win because the other side appears competent and organized.
- On Clubhouse, Tim functions as a jester brought out to make jokes while tech leaders discuss literal shackles—now made from elastic polymer so people feel free while being snapped back.
- There is no end to the pandemic in sight and never will be, not because of conspiracy but because this is how tech billionaires make their money and will remake society.
- These billionaires will present themselves as saviors while ushering humanity into an era where people cannot leave home or speak freely, all framed as being for the greater good.