The Portal Wiki

Extractive Elite: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Extractive Elite (edit)

Revision as of 01:04, 24 September 2025

12,215 bytes added ,  24 September
→‎2021
Line 202: Line 202:
=== 2021 ===
=== 2021 ===


{{#widget:Tweet|id=1399289448227958784}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1399289448227958784
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''This has everything to do with the political economy of elite overproduction and the extractive economics of rent seeking under lowered growth.'''
|thread=
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1399289446445436934
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If you’re an expert loyal to the system there are now almost always second chances. Even your second chances’ second chances get second chances.
 
If you question that system, there are almost never first chances. Even w/ the right credentials.
 
It wasn’t always this way however.
|quote=
{{Tweet
|image=ComicDaveSmith-profile.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/ComicDaveSmith/status/1399160122761428994
|name=Dave Smith
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ComicDaveSmith
|username=ComicDaveSmith
|content=I’ve been obsessively paying attention to the news for about 15 years now and the most infuriating thing to me is that “experts” can get things completely wrong, mock the people who get them right, never apologize or even acknowledge it, and continue being “experts.”
|timestamp=12:25 AM · May 31, 2021
}}
|timestamp=8:59 AM · May 31, 2021
}}
|timestamp=8:59 AM · May 31, 2021
}}
 


{{Tweet
{{Tweet
Line 210: Line 243:
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=There’s no better way to destroy elitism than calling our unethical rich “the elite”.
|content='''There’s no better way to destroy elitism than calling our unethical rich “the elite”.'''


Soon folks will want average relatable folks for their kid’s brain surgeon or good-enough hostage rescue units. Anyone else will remind them of a partner at Goldman conspiring at a fund raiser.
Soon folks will want average relatable folks for their kid’s brain surgeon or good-enough hostage rescue units. Anyone else will remind them of a partner at Goldman conspiring at a fund raiser.
Line 216: Line 249:
}}
}}


{{#widget:Tweet|id=1415114475099738117}}
 
{{#widget:Tweet|id=1417630282102960129}}
{{Tweet
{{#widget:Tweet|id=1417630286955769858}}
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
{{#widget:Tweet|id=1417630288906133510}}
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1415114477264011265
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Moral: take care of the innovators you task to make you wealthy & secure. Particularly the heterodox leaders that won’t always get along with others. Then get out of the way w the social engineering. Share the STEM benefits with your NATO allies before giving them to your rivals.
|thread=
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1415114470632742914
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Then listen closely.
 
A) You stop giving CEO’s an ear when they whine about labor shortages. Cut off the visas.
 
B) You *spend* on STEM R&D. Sky-High Compensation w High Standards.
 
C) You purge *everything* that says “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” anywhere close to a STEM kid.
|timestamp=1:02 AM · Jul 14, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1415114472771919877
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=D) Kick the CCP out of US labs. Make them do their own scientific research, as to do it well requires freedom. Force CCP towards freedom through science & STEM rather than letting them pick the fruits of our freedom to challenge and question orthodoxy.
 
E) Hire our own heterodox.
|timestamp=1:02 AM · Jul 14, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1415114473916964864
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=F) Incentivize the leadership of our most critical institutions to promote people who won’t play well with others who are captured by groupthink. Earmark money to promote those who won’t easily  get along with co-workers when their co-workers are standing in the way of progress.
|timestamp=1:02 AM · Jul 14, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1415114475099738117
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=More or less we have to kickstart the American dream. '''And to do that requires a public spirited elite.'''
 
'''We need to purge ourselves of our fake elite.''' We are coming to hate fake experts.
 
We need real ones who are well paid. By us. Not by some revolving door baksheesh arrangement.
|timestamp=1:02 AM · Jul 14, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1415114476064579588
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=But I was cheering when Blake said one income. Because raising kids is about the most important job in the world. And if we are going to get rich enough to do it we need innovators worried about their next family vacation, not how to find two adjunct positions in adjacent states.
|timestamp=1:02 AM · Jul 14, 2021
}}
|timestamp=1:02 AM · Jul 14, 2021
}}
 
 
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630291036758016
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Soapbox speech over.
 
As always, thanks for listening and letting me try out these ideas at scale. 🙏
|thread=
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630275660500994
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The cognitive tools for understanding any rationale behind NIH funded Gain of Function Research in China are almost certainly being withheld.
 
Look at it from the point of a true believer in the system. “We have to not lose the bioweapon arms race & should keep our rivals close.”
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630276633579523
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=“But the public will never understand a partnership with our main rival as being safer than being frozen out of all CCP decisions. On the other hand we can’t be seen as engaging in a bioweapons arms race. So we had myriad ways to evade the optics of what we were actually doing.”
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630278248398852
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=“Then COVID got out. Suddenly the whole world was talking about zoonotic bat respiratory Corona viruses: a subject the public had never heard of before. Our excuses & proxies for what is essentially military strategy for containment of CCP biowarfare ambitions were center stage.”
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630280072896513
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=“Only we can’t talk about this. And our strategy that worked well enough when no one in the public knew “Gain of Function”, “Spike Protein” or “Zoonotic” terms stopped working when everyone on the planet was forced to become amateur scientists. Then we lost ‘Lab Leak is racism’.”
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630281159168005
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=“So what do we do? Do we have an open town-hall to explain all things that are part of delicate multi decade Wash DC political insider theory like “Constructive engagement”, “Iranian Nuclear Containment”, “Two State Solution”? Of course not. That’s why we have an expert class.”
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630282102960129
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''So we sit around with the expert class withholding all the cognitive tools “we the people” need to figure out whether we have the CORRECT public spirited Elite.''' Which we do not.
 
Thus the ‘elite’ get more and more resentful that we are meddling in ‘their’ strategic endeavors. Ha.
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630283101212672
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The idea that it’s time to come clean about Epstein, Iran, the West Bank, Strategic Engagement, Nuclear Bluffing, Climate & Wealth, internal spying, Assange and Snowden, simply never occurs to a class that believes it is acting in a way that can NEVER be open to public scrutiny.
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630284099428353
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=Start from this insider premise that is never said out loud, “The purpose of democracy is to give the public the most minimal choice over multi-decade cryptic strategies that must be managed by insider classes, so that they can only slightly course correct from expert consensus.”
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630285022208006
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=The populist premise is simpler: “You insiders seem to be incompetent at your jobs & more than competent at your extraction of wealth & obfuscation of all with which you have been entrusted. '''How can we force you ‘elite’ to account for your non-elite malfeasance and incompetence?”'''
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630286003662848
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=That’s how I see it. '''We have to stop talking about this in the exact terms we are handed by the very ‘elite’ who don’t want us talking about the real issues.''' We need to stop using the framings we’re handed.
 
For example, “Gain of Function” is largely a euphemism for “weaponized”.
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630286955769858
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''Do I believe in an actual Elite that cannot share everything with the public. Yeah. Think about it; It cannot be otherwise.'''
 
'''Do I believe in this *elite*? This is the Keystone Cops meets Mr Magoo.'''
 
So I am neither a populist nor a defender of the system as it is currently found.
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630287891103745
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=We should join the populists in demanding answers based on pathological extractive, unethical and incompetent behavior.
 
But you cannot “burn it all the fuck down”, put it all on the blockchain or vote for complete transparency either.
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630288906133510
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content='''We need a well paid actual public spirited elite public servant class.'''
 
And no one I know is willing to say this. They either defend the system as is, or want some radical revolution.
 
We need new folks in their 20s-50s. Not Fauci. Not Biden. Not Trump. Not Pelosi. Not McConnell.
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
{{Tweet
|image=Eric profile picture.jpg
|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1417630290080530437
|name=Eric Weinstein
|usernameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein
|username=EricRWeinstein
|content=If you’ve been in power for a long time and are now in your 70s & 80s? It is simply time to go. That’s not ageism.
 
That’s an IMPLICIT part of the system. We’ve never before remotely had a President & core group this out of touch, this old, and this technically over their heads.
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}
|timestamp=11:39 PM · Jul 20, 2021
}}


=== 2025 ===
=== 2025 ===
Retrieved from "https://theportal.wiki/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/22374"