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    Gilded RageJacob Silverman

    Gilded Rage

    Jacob Silverman · 2025

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    2people
    2025–2026years
    50% recommend50% neutral

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    1. Joel_MckayOct 2026
      In general, commercial entities have to be more cautious what they "think" international copyright and trademark laws cover.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhgYMH6n004

      I would also recommend this book if people tire of the marketing hype. =3

      "Gilded Rage" (Jacob Silverman, 2025)

      https://www.amazon.com/Gilded-Rage-Radicalization-Silicon-Va...

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    2. adamorsNov 2025
      It’s not a clickbait title, it succintly sums how the author percieves the dominant feeling of these people

      > Silverman: I think it’s [the anger] pretty palpable. That’s one reason why I call it a “gilded rage,” it’s that you hear it from them. We do hear from these people directly on social media and these long interviews they give on podcasts—some of them have their own podcasts—or speeches they give publicly. They’re all content creators now.

      > The emotion that often comes through is this sort of wounded anger, they feel victimized. Some of it is a bit in the style of classic right wing victimology, but it’s also, “the people don’t appreciate them enough and the world they’re trying to make,” whether it’s tech critics or regulators. But I think also they share a lot of the anti-woke grievances of the last few years, Musk very explicitly in his transphobia. The sense that progressive politics has somehow gone too far and has made everyone else’s lives oppressive and miserable seems to be an idea they share, despite all their wealth and power and the fact that I don’t think those left wing ideas had a major effect on tech. But, in some cases, I think it’s also personal. You hear someone like Bill Ackman say that, “Harvard turned his daughter into a Marxist,” or Elon Musk has talked a lot about his child coming out as trans. He said, “the woke mind virus killed my son.” That’s how he came up with this idea of “the woke mind virus”. He seems very angry about that.

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