A Few Disturbing Thoughts About How Every Major Technology Company is Really Financed...

Announcing a new series... Going Macrohard on Microsoft...

Disclaimer: This article isn’t at all about the present. No sir! There’s a lot of things I want to say but can’t say so read closely.

Say you were developing a technology in the olden times (i.e. the pre-mobile phone era).

How would you pay for it? Perhaps the better question is who shall be made to pay for it.

Now we’re taught that the government just shells out some cash — “research and development” — and bada bing, bada boom, you developed some technology. Isn’t that wonderful? In the movie version you run the montage.

After you’ve got that innovation maybe you even get a university or some think tank to write some academic papers with some pretty graphs and charts and maybe a formula. You might consider handing a script and attendant tenure to some autistic professor who can talk about it on the news.

But that isn’t how it really happens, folks. You know that. We’ve been over this many times on this here Substack.

No, to develop your technology you ideally get your enemies to pay for it. Sometimes that’s done through war and necessity but, barring that, you tax your vassal states who must pay you tribute.

Sometimes these are conquered lands. Sometimes they are conquered peoples or industries. We don’t talk about California, Texas, the Mountain West or Florida being under Yankee occupation. It’s rude but just because something is rude doesn’t make it any less true.

The lines here between someone paying you tribute and investing are also somewhat blurry. Is the gangster whose told to invest in a deep state project really investing? Or is he being tax farmed? If you’re told to buy a stock that will allow others to cash out what’s really going on? If you’re told to place a losing bet at a casino who is really being enriched?

And then there’s the question of who ought to run that technology? (And perhaps the even trickier question of who will run it…)

You might even consider auditioning for the role of public face because everyone knows that casting a hero is very important.

Casting calls work wonders and work well. The person should be young but presentable and preferable approachable so that media can either love to hate them or hate to love them. They could even be a child star, groomed as it were, over many years. They should be rebellious but in a playful way and maybe even be willing to appear on Saturday Night Live in a pinch.

From Time in 2007: “There's a great photo of Bill Gates from 1977, the year he would have graduated from Harvard if he hadn't dropped out. He was 22 at the time and looks all of 16. He's got a flowered collar, tinted glasses and feathered blond hair, and he looks so happy, you'd swear he knew what the rest of his life was going to be like. He also has a sign around his neck: it's a mug shot. "I was out driving Paul [Allen]'s car," Gates says, flashing that same smile 30 years later. "They pulled me over, and I didn't have my license, and they put me in with all the drunks all night long. And that's why the rest of my life, I've always tried to have a fair amount of cash with me. I like the idea of being able to bail myself out."

To supervise our young genius — don’t you dare say otherwise! — you might even consider putting a small, insular, smart, mostly trustworthy minority in charge, albeit behind the scenes. Such a community would need to self-police and, if its deep state technology, be able to pass a security clearance. So no drugs, please!

You might, in other words, go with the Church of Latter-day Saints. And that’s precisely what was done when the powers that be created Novell, the second largest provider of software for personal computers after Microsoft. It may also be what’s going on with other more modern tech billionaires but we aren’t allowed to talk about that just yet. No, we cannot talk about how Mormons are often assigned to keep an eye on our would-be wayward tech entrepreneurs and how this is for their own good.

How Microsoft defeated Novell with the help of foreign intelligence and organized crime is a subject we shall explore in future posts. But don’t feel too bad for Novell. It, too, was backed by criminal cash. Indeed Mormon and Las Vegas cash is to Novell what Chinese, German and Russian-Jewish cash is to Microsoft. It is the fuel thrown into the furnace to keep the lights on.

There are a lot of questions we should ask ourselves as we probe the depths of this relationship in subsequent posts.

Why did Warren Buffett have to bless Bill and Melinda’s marriage? Who does Melinda now work for?

What’s the deal with Michael Larson? And who exactly managed Gates’s money before Larson?

Who was Gary Kildall really, and how exactly did he die?

These are a few of the questions you might want to consider.

You have to go global macro hard on Microsoft if you want to understand what’s going on. You might begin to understand why Microsoft’s lack of security isn’t a bug but a feature for foreign adversaries.

When you do, you’ll learn the rules of this game that we play with the other deep states and transnational organized crime.

Who pays for the technological development? Can you get your opponents to pay for it?

Is Open AI a weapon? A toy? A fraud? A pay off?

Will it be properly reviewed by our security state?

Or is this a bit like Saint Augustine’s famous prayer but with a twist? Oh Deep State, give me countertintelligence but not yet!