Billionaire Class Interest

I’m on record for having some contempt over the constant whining about the media we see around here and other liberal spaces. My friends, the people who own these things are billionaires. They act according to their class interest. What do you expect them to do? Running a TV network or a newspaper is not an act of charity or a public service. It is a business proposition.

That doesn’t mean I think Bezos destroying the Washington Post is a good thing. In fact, I think he probably does more or less ruin the paper and it costs him a lot of money for any normal person, which means it’s fuck you money for him. He doesn’t care. He’s going to run this thing like most billionaires would–a deep desire to be the Wall Street Journal. He’s unlikely to do it well, or as well as the WSJ. He’s alienating his core readership. Cancel if you want–I keep a subscription strictly so I can write here and other places, but I also don’t see any big media as on “my team.” I mean, these newspapers and television stations and websites are owned by capitalists, meaning scumbags. So whatever, of course the Times and the Post and MSNBC are going to turn into shitshows eventually.

I just wish working people acted in their class interests as much as the billionaires do.

Also, if Bezos and Trump and all these guys want to recreate the Gilded Age, well, sometimes there were consequences disordering the country back then and we are already starting to see that with the dude who shot the health care CEO. It’s not good, but it seems to be what these people want.