Bill Gates and Microsoft are not a story about hard work or even capitalizing on lucky opportunities. It’s a story about privilege and artificially creating conditions for success that the average person never can.

Bill Gates belonged to a well connected family. His father William H. Gates Sr., was a big shot attorney, and his mother, Mary Maxwell Gates, served on corporate and nonprofit boards, including the board of United Way (an international network of over 1,800 local nonprofit fundraising affiliates).

It was through the United Way board that she met the chairman of IBM at the time, John Opel, and it was this connection that helped Microsoft.

When IBM wanted an operating system for their consumer desktop computers, they chose Microsoft to be their partner. Microsoft didn’t even have an operating system at the time. Gates acquired the rights to an existing operating system called 86-DOS (also known as QDOS) from Seattle Computer Products and renamed it to MS-DOS and licensed it to IBM. So not only was he privileged, he was also not a gifted programmer or inventor as people tout him to be. He was just another rich kid who used his money and his parent’s connections to start a business.

An argument could be made here that this is no different from wealthy people in the past using their money and resources to become patrons for other artists and inventors. We wouldn’t have Windows or personal computers today if it weren’t for Gates and Microsoft. But the difference between then and now is that back then it was the artists and inventors who got the recognition and left a legacy, whereas now, nobody knows who the engineers are and these rich trust fund babies take all the credit.

Modern capitalism disproportionately rewards and memorializes capital allocation and ownership while underrecognizing the engineers, scientists, and designers whose technical labor makes these enterprises possible.

I think reincarnation is real. One day you’ll die, and your atoms will be go back into the universe that birthed you. And then one day those same atoms will come together again to form molecules for another life. It could be a a year later, ten years later, or twenty billion years later. But it will happen. You won’t remember your previous life, but that’s a good thing, because you’ll be able to start anew without the insecurities and trauma that held you back in this one. You’ll get a second chance.

For some reason, I feel nostalgic about these New York brownstone apartments even though I’ve never been to New York.

So the other day I was watching a video about bees. The video focused on the Queen Bee. How it was just a fat breeding cow and how it has attendants that feed her and take care of her needs while her only jobs is to lay eggs. This is because bees are eusocial insects. The entire colony functions like a single organism. Or in sci-fi terms, a hive mind.

And I think we are going to become like bees.

Think about it. The Queen bee is the elite of the bee society. She does nothing and yet has everything. Who does that remind you of? The most recent trillionaire maybe? How do you think he became a trillionaire?

And it isn’t that far fetched to believe humans could be turned into a bee like society. We went from hunter gatherers to farmers to whatever the fuck we are right now. Why can’t we be bees? It is in the interest of the elites of our society that only they get to reproduce (only to make new elites) while the rest of us are forced into sterilization and made to only serve them. New slaves would be born out of test tube babies. So why won’t they turn us into bees? The truly disturbing part is that such a society might not even need force to begin with. People could be genetically modified to enjoy their assigned role.

In this bee-like society:

• Natural reproduction is outlawed.
• A small reproductive elite produces the next generation.
• Most humans are sterilized at birth.
• Artificial wombs create workers in large numbers.
• Genetic engineering determines social rank before birth.
• Loyalty is directed toward the “hive” rather than the family.

The Zucks and Bezoes of our world are already building their colonies (underground bunkers). What do they know that we don’t? What do they think will happen? What are they trying to make happen?

Anyway, this entire thing is just cool sci-fi plot that I thought up on the toilet (I’m not actually this much deranged).