US Technology Giants Farewell to the era of absolute influence
For intellectuals of a specific style, there is no more attractive play than discovering the ‘right’ power behind the apparent scene of power. Who controls events behind the scenes? What class interests served through the government? Who “actually controls”? Such questions inspire long theses and conspiracy theories. The technological sector has so far been the preferred goal when it comes to Trump’s management. Ian Bremer, head of the political consulting group “Eurassia”, talks about “the moment of technology domination” and “the frightening integration between the power of technology and state power.” Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon regrets the influence of “global dominant technology designers to turn Americans into digital slaves.” The opening session of the conference “ASBIN INSTANTIOT I ITALY” about the future of capitalism in Milan on May 16 (in which I was one of the speakers) dealt with the subject of “Technological Capitalism: the new golden era in America.” It is easy to understand the attractiveness of this proposal. The US technology industry has an extraordinary impact on the US economy: the ‘seven big ones’ represent almost a third of the market value of the S&B index. The most important technology companies generously donated Trump’s election campaign and its inauguration ceremony. Elon Musk won the title “The Co President” while wandering around the Oval Office and carrying his son on his shoulders. The poor political influence of technology giants, but the more we approach the ‘moment of the dominance of major technology companies’, the more it seems than a mirage. The weakness of its relative political influence is perhaps the most attention in the US technology industry, given its economic domination. Musk seems to be excluded from Trump’s near circle, despite spending about $ 300m to support his re -election. His moment was under the lights short and unsuccessful. In terms of the Ministry of Government Efficiency, it was nothing but a broker without flour. The muscan promise to reduce government spending is reduced by a trillion dollars to 150 billion and may be more extensive. Not only that because the courts hampered the campaign to put the employees who launched them, but because the whole project was the wrong perception; As Mask acknowledges itself, the only way to provide serious amounts of money is to restore rights, which requires years of alliance to build alliances. Musk failed to persuade Trump to cancel customs duties, despite his description of Trump’s most important commercial advisors, Peter Navarro, as “completely foolish” and “stupid as a stone bag”. Until now, his adventure in democratic policy has cost him about a quarter of his clear wealth, with the decline in the shares of “Tesla” and the cars of the “Tesla” cars on him. There is no wonder that he himself refers to his desire to refuse and introvert. Mask’s failure reflects the failure of the technology industry. Mask’s failure in the edition of Customs Duties reflects the greater failure of the technology industry in determining the agenda of the economy; There was no presidency of Bern Sanders to do more damage to the technological sector filars. Trump’s addiction to customs duties is a bad thing for a sector based on global supply chains. Even “Amazon” briefly thought about including the cost of customs duties within the vocabulary of the products he sold before called CEO Trump Bezos. The worst is Trump’s constant fluctuation in drawings, which makes future planning impossible. Its anti -immigration policies are difficult to employ foreign skilled workers on which technology companies depend; Modern figures indicate that the United States no longer attract the best talent in the field of artificial intelligence. Trump’s war against universities, including future grants, the list of their cancel and changing the mechanism of financing of research bodies, threatens the active innovation system in America. US visitors spoke during the “Asbin” conference about freezers, reduced divisions, canceled visiting professors’ positions and academic sins to find work in Europe. This war is likely to increase; Trump’s 2026 budget sets a reduction in financing the National Health Institutes by about 40%, and the National Science Foundation by 57%. Its proposals to impose tax on the University’s income by 14% or 21%, or cancel the exemption from universities of tax, will be hampered by efforts to bridge the deficit with the help of endowment funds. Trump’s presidency condemns more populist tendency of technology. Trump’s populist supporters can support mask as he talks about passing parts of government through “woodworthy” (to break down parts of the state), but they did not forget that many technologies were until yesterday’s nearby social liberals that donated generously to the Democratic Party and transferred US posts abroad. Vice President GD Vances describes the “Apple” and “Google” businesses as the contemporary version of the parasitism “East India”. As far as Bannon is concerned, it goes further in the motorcycle loop full of promises. The technology industry misunderstood the technology industry that the election of Trump means to get rid of the anti -monopoly policies accepted by Joe Biden. But the opposite is what happened; The Federal Trade Committee still follows the company “Mita” against the backdrop of its upcoming competition in abortion when it acquired “Instagram” and “WhatsApp”, and the Justice Ministry is determined to force “Google” to sell the “Chrome” brager. The two laws were submitted during the first term of the Trump and continued during the state Biden, in an indication of an increasing consensus against technology giants. Since Trump has economic policy, it focuses on repairing manufacturing more than technology. Trump wants to be partially manufactured to the United States because it supports the quality of workers with blue collars that see that they have raised America, and partly because the country has to produce more to confront its Chinese opponent. In general, many managers in the technology sector opened their governor to Trump, not because they share it with his vision on America, but rather because they realized that Democrats were on their way to the defeat led by Biden, and they feared Trump would turn against them. ‘Family’ and not ‘technologically’ as much as Trump has a ‘class base’, using ancient Marxist terms, they are represented in family businesses and not in technology giants on the West Coast. Trump’s natural environment is one of the owners of family businesses who have inherited their business, worked in real estate and withdrawal industries, and they hate the culture of dull administrative models in large companies and enjoy showing their wealth in places like “Maralago”. It differs a lot from the ‘geniuses’ that the virtual world builds (although they don’t mind making money easily from ‘coded currencies’). But even Trump’s relationship with family business owners is limited. The most important thing to understand about Trump is that he does not represent anyone’s interests, but his own interests. In fact, the disturbing thing of his presidency is not that there are hidden commercial powers that control things behind the scenes, but rather that the businessman moving the wires (and the loot) is Trump himself.