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"VC qanon" and the radicalization of the tech tycoons - Anil Dash

It's important to remember, nobody becomes a billionaire by accident. You have to have wanted that level of power, control and wealth more than you wanted anything else in your life.

They all 👉 sacrifice family, relationships, stability, community, connection, and belonging in service of keeping score on a scale that actually 👉 yields #no #additional real-world #benefits on the path from that first $100 million to the tens of billions.

👉 So you have a cohort that is, counterintutively, #very #easily #manipulated.

If you have access to a billionaire (and 👉 billionaires all have access to each other, because it suits their ego to think of each other as peers), most are very easy to program by simply playing to their #insecurity and desire for #acknowledgement of #exceptionalism, 👉 and so they push each other further and further into #extreme #ideas because their entire careers have been predicated on the idea that they're genius outliers who can see things others can't, and that their wealth is a reward for that imagined merit.

anildash.com/2023/07/07/vc-qan

www.anildash.com"VC qanon" and the radicalization of the tech tycoons - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999.

#MVD is a disease with #high #mortality that causes #haemorrhagic #fever, and is among the diseases that require assessment under the International Health Regulations.
On 30 March 2023, #WHO assessed the public health #risk posed by the current outbreak in #Equatorial #Guinea as #very #high at the national level, high at sub-regional level, moderate at the regional level and #low at the global level.
Since the last Disease Outbreak News on this event was published on 22 March 2023 (with data as of 21 March 2023), six additional laboratory-confirmed cases of #Marburg #virus #disease (MVD) have been reported in Equatorial Guinea.
This brings the total to 15 laboratory-confirmed and 23 probable cases since the declaration of the outbreak on 13 February 2023.
Among the laboratory confirmed there are 11 deaths (#Case #Fatality #Ratio 78.6%; for one confirmed case the outcome is unknown), and **all probable cases are dead**. 
The most affected district is Bata in Litoral province, with nine laboratory-confirmed MVD cases reported.
WHO is supporting the Ministry of Health by strengthening different response pillars, including but not limited to surveillance, including at points of entry; laboratory; case management; infection prevention and control; risk communication and community engagement.
who.int/emergencies/disease-ou

www.who.intMarburg virus disease - Equatorial Guinea