“In the startup world, you work hard and you move fast to make other
people rich. Other people. You’re a small elite of very smart young
people who are working hard for an even smaller elite of mostly baby
boomer financiers. So they can buy national governments, shut the
governments down, destroy the middle class and the nation state… That
will be the judgement of history for your startup culture… It was a
tacit allegiance between the hacker space favelas of the startups and
offshored capital and tax avoidance money laundries. We’re all auto
colonialised by the austerity”