Fascism for First Time Founders
techdirt.comReal talk! Get this on the front page.
There is no way in million years this will ever hit the front page.
Innovation? Check.
Tech? Check.
Startups? Check.
Potentially critical of deal leader? Hide it!! Hide it!!!
Why criticism of fascism in the abstract is also criticism of the current administration is an exercise I will leave to the reader.
I agree but it'll never make it there, this is exactly what your average user of this site wants to avoid hearing.
It's a nice idea everyone can get behind, but it's empirically false. Namely, fascism (and soon after, the cold war) was the raison d'être of rocket science and the computer (and a bunch of other things).
The main difference (and I think, the real argument against Fascism for Innovation™) is that all these innovations were created for the explicit purpose of turning human beings into minced meat as efficiently as possible.
This is not ideal, even from the point of view of the innovator. As much as you want to be able to move fast, your investors will demand faster results -- or someone who'll provide them.
That’s why all the scientist came to the US.
Fascism has its own goals. Definitionally, they are not your goals, unless, of course you are the autocrat.
Fascism didn't drive rocketry, the needs of war did. And I'm not aware that Germany made many advances in the field of computing, either - I suppose you could argue that the Enigma machine was a part of that, but (a) that was again driven by war, and (b) was answered by Poland and the UK by building cryptanalysis machinery that arguably led directly to the first actual computers.