Lessons from the French and Indian War for Tech Companies

Many of the people who went on to found the United States were directly involved in the French and Indian War in the colonies that eventually became the United States. The F&I war was the American theater of a global conflict between the french and british empire. People like George Washington got an up close and personal look at the apparatus of the british empire and saw its weakness in North America.

Today, tech companies are inserting themselves into the culture wars nonsense on behalf of left wing ideologies and fraud politicians. This is all a result of the stupid presidential election and the fear of the "establishment" (corporate execs and NGOs) of the electoral backlash against neoliberalism, aka the political arrangement where they reap huge rewards for automation and slave labor.

Tech is the most ephemeral business there is because the underlying technologies and techniques are ephemeral. If you're 40 years old or more, you can probably remember names like Digital Equipment Corp. or Sun Microsystems, or COMPAQ or lol Kaypro. Another important factor, even more important today, is that the barrier to entry for starting new tech ventures is very, very low. The enterprises that look so strong are in fact tied to massive sunk costs of aging garbage hardware.

The Internet of today is (was?) the home of the counter culture, but tech companies are the establishment. This inherent tension seems to be playing out now.

The culture war has moved into an economic attack phase. This type of economic "war" has happened many times in history in various forms. NGOs and hidden hand muckety mucks seem to be pushing their peons in tech to cut the ability of people like Alex Jones, who's basically an infotainer, and Sargon, another infotainer, to make money through internet platforms.

The institutions that seem so strong today can get terminally ill tomorrow. We're in the era of war and imperialism by other means. The Internet will probably split into a New World internet and a sad old world internet.