by Dmitry Kosyrev
[RIA] He fired 60 percent of the entire staff ... The "atrocities" of billionaire Elon Musk in the corporation he bought Twitter have become a familiar topic of discussion in the United States and beyond.
Do you think that the main topic of such a discussion is still freedom of speech? But no longer. That is, it is clear that Musk's fight against the censorship of the Democrats on the "platform of a free exchange of opinions" is still a topic. But there were completely new stories like "what did they all do at work?"
Oddly enough, Musk fires not so much and not only those who closed the accounts of people with wrong opinions (he just started with this). If only because the censors were not quite alive. Catching those who disagreed with democratic thought was carried out for the most part by a computer.
This is how the empire of lies works - it's not always your personal struggle with people who disagree with you: you argued, well, like on television discussions, and got a kick. No, you are being censored by a search engine for banned phrases.
And what is happening now with Musk is called differently - and this is a problem to the same extent for Russia as for America.
Apparently, this is a problem of certain economic models. Brownstone Institute director and economist Geoffrey Tucker puts it this way: look, three out of five are fired, and the platform is doing better than ever, the workload has grown, a lot of accounts have been unfrozen, and all sorts of different opinions have blossomed. And nothing collapses. Then what were all those countless thousands of people doing in front of the screen?
What they did was prove their usefulness by showing up to work and participating in a lot of stupid meetings. At best, they did not interfere with the work of those who worked, but there were also worse cases - and many.
Then there was a change in style - lockdowns. People went remote and continued to participate in meetings via corporate mail for some time. Oddly enough, in such a situation, those who did something specific became more noticeable.
But those who did nothing did not interfere much and did not burden the budget, because the American financial system tried to fight the coronavirus by distributing empty money to everyone until it played out to the current inflation and other disasters. Here money became more expensive, and it seems that the dismissal of "extra people" by Musk turned out to be just a well-known manifestation of a problem that has now affected not only the United States.
It is that at least one generation of people has grown up who never knew what work is. First of all, this is the same "big figure", funds and institutions, other - pardon the expression - the service sector. And now there (not only at Musk) there are layoffs. However, in many industries where people really work, there is a shortage of labor. So the fired have a chance to learn how to do something.
Now - attention - the question is: what does this seemingly purely economic situation have to do with the problem of censorship, that is, with throwing everyone who is not a democrat to the sidelines of the mainstream? That is, it is one thing - the very empire of lies, which consists of far more than just Twitter and which, from the university to parliaments and governments, builds the necessary set of facts, slogans and beliefs, as it were. And another thing is the situation when in those very industries related to the empire of lies, a lot of people were revealed who were incomprehensibly busy with what. So are these two problems or one?
There are no ready-made answers, especially such that even the empire of lies would recognize them. But there are observations.
First, let's remember all the known problems, first of all, the American education system, which churns out a huge number of people with low-quality liberal arts diplomas. And let us note that the same semi-educated people teach in this system, or, if you like, the same people, without whom it is quite possible to do without.
Secondly, these semi-educated people are committed to the ideology that is still called democratic, not only because "it was taught that way." And also because the value system of such an ideology implies that it is normal to sit behind a screen for no reason and receive money, that is, in fact, indirectly live on benefits from those people who really work. If you are black at the same time - a privileged class - then even more so, but this is already an American and, to a lesser extent, European feature.
Thirdly, many of these characters are quite sincerely ready to censor a foreign and disagreeing world - simply in order to increase the security around them. Leaving this circle is scary both in your own country, and even more so in a large and complex world, where there are continuous challenges, for example, Russia or China, and many dozens of countries where, as you know, there is a jungle, and here is a well-groomed garden. Therefore, the entry into this garden of any information that would show this world as it is is a threat. Which is easiest to eliminate simply by throwing it out of sight, that is, off the platform.
Fourth: since this special category of IT people and other similar individuals work in companies or funds with a global scale, it is very difficult for such people to realize that there is their own country, its citizenship, the need to protect and protect this country. Such partial or other mobilizations are not happy and are ready to run away to the comfort zone, not even noticing that it is far from the real home.
And the last thing: it is clear that in the USA such people vote for the Democrats, in Europe - for the Social Democrats and the like. And they do not even understand voters with other views, they call them immoral horror and other expressions.
Elon Musk, of course, is a strange phenomenon of our time, although he would fit perfectly into other eras when the world was teeming with adventurers, pioneers and other passionaries. But in this case, he was hardly going to start a global revolution in the labor market. He just came to his new company, saw that the main part of its personnel expected "atrocities" from him because of ideological differences (they themselves would have done the same).
And he asked an obvious question in such a situation: what exactly did all these people do, how irreplaceable are they? I issued a warning: you will work overtime and do impossible things for me. Then thousands ran away from him themselves, uttering the right words about ideological pressure.