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What happens when techno-utopians actually run a country

Posted by Sahasrahla
Tags: politics, government, italy, five star movement, techno utopians, universal basic income, fascism, democracy, author.darren loucaides, source.wired, long read, paywall
https://www.wired.com/story/italy-five-star-movement-techno-utopians/

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Authors
Darren Loucaides, Tom Simonite, Caitlin Harrington, James Vlahos, Klint Finley, Amy Webb, Nitasha Tiku
Word count
9189 words

2 comments

  1. thundergolfer
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    Yikes. While you'd certainly grant the party's Techno-Utopian roots, it's current commitment to even a semi-legitimate vision of Techno-Utopianism is pretty non-existent. The co-founder took young...

    Yikes.

    While you'd certainly grant the party's Techno-Utopian roots, it's current commitment to even a semi-legitimate vision of Techno-Utopianism is pretty non-existent. The co-founder took young men with no serious engineering or technocratic background and made them leaders. Big surprise that they ended up not with Techno-Utopianism but standard xenophobic politics.

    5 votes
  2. luwayafi
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    They put a fascist in charge of the Interior Ministry.

    They put a fascist in charge of the Interior Ministry.

    4 votes