“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”