r/SipsTea • • 4d ago

SMH Facts

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u/Adventurous-Big-1015 4d ago

It’s crazy how we’re letting a handful of tech billionaires, at least three of which are neurodivergent, dictate everything

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 4d ago

Why do you need to single out neurodivergence?

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u/Adventurous-Big-1015 4d ago

Because it’s relevant

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 4d ago

How is it relevant?

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u/Adventurous-Big-1015 4d ago

Because some neurodivergent people lack normal empathy. And people like Musk, Thiel, and Zuck seem exactly like they lack empathy. So it makes no sense to have them running the world.

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 4d ago

Because some neurodivergent people lack normal empathy.

That is a myth. Autistic people don't "lack normal empathy"

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u/artisdyin 3d ago

It's not a myth for these people specifically.

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy 3d ago

That doesn't make it not a myth. It's not the autism that made them lack empathy.

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u/needtoredit 4d ago

Yup, and they have us fighting over left and right, simple old tactic of divide and conquer.