Fellow founder of Apple Steve Wozniak, his colleague Silicon Valley Tech Bros – directs Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The 74-year-old who founded the massive technology company with Steve Jobs in 1976 spoke with hundreds of attendees on Barcelona's talent Arena Developers Fair when he regretted the 'direct role' of Big Tech in American politics, Forbes reports.
Wozniak argued that the large technology companies are just so big, it is as if they run our lives'.
'Technology companies are huge, they are huge and [because they are] Worth so much money, they must have some political involvement, “he said, and acknowledge the long history of the technical industry of lobbying among politicians.
“But actually play a direct role because they have made it big in technology, I don't like that at all,” said Wozniak, who left the company for years before it became a global phenomenon, the audience while focusing his attention on Musk.
He further explained that “the skills of politics are very different from the skills for technology companies to be successful.”
'If you run a company, look around and look for a consensus. If half of your employees feel one way, you will negotiate compromises. '
“I don't see that happening in the case of Elon Musk … you don't just say that everything is out and start fresh.”
Co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak, 74, regretted the 'direct role' of Big Tech in American politics, while on Tuesday he spoke with hundreds of attendees on Barcelona's talent Arena Developers Fair. Wozniak was depicted in 2022
The co-founder of Apple focused specifically on Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Wozniak's comments come in stark contrast to other technical leaders who have collaborated as President Donald Trump in recent months.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for example, traveled twice to the estate of the President of Mar-A-Lago after he won control of the White House about former vice-president Kamala Harris.
At the moment he announced that he would terminate the facts control program of Facebook and Instagram, despite studies that proved that it reduced the wrong information on the social media sites.
The billionaire also moved to allow some LGBT people to be mentally ill, his most promoted his most forming director of Trump and put Trump supporter UFC boss Dana White on the board.
Zuckerberg even appeared at Trump's inauguration, alongside Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who supported the president in the same way in his re-election campaign.
He had ordered the Washington Post not to endorse Harris in the race, and Bezos said in December He was 'optimistic' about that of Trump Second term and noted that he intends to 'help' him to achieve their shared goals.
Bezos has since announced that he intends to revise the Opinion page of the Washington Post to concentrate exclusively on support for 'personal freedoms and free markets'.
Other technical managers have not been so prominent in their support for Trump, but have supported his agenda in other ways.
Wozniak's comments come in stark contrast to other technical leaders who have merged to President Donald Trump in recent months, including Meta -CEO Mark Zuckerberg
For example, Google bosses sent employees an e-mail last month and said they would no longer strive to improve the dei representation in the staff in the midst of Trump's anti-wok agenda.
The parent company, Alphabet, also removed a punishment stating that the company “was dedicated to participate in diversity, fairness and inclusion of everything we do and to grow a workforce that is representative of the users we serve.”
Nevertheless, Musk remains the most prominent tech broer in Trump's track while leading to the controversial Ministry of Government Efficiency of the President.
He has claimed that the department saved the American taxpayers $ 105 billion by terminating contracts and canceling lease contracts, as well as federal subsidies.
But the figures from the desk have been questioned because the 2,299 contracts on his wall of receipts are only $ 8.8 billion in alleged savings.
The Department also claims that it has terminated $ 660 million in real estate rental meetings and $ 10.3 billion in federal government subsidies.
Yet that would still only be $ 19.7 billion in savings – far away from the $ 105 billion that the department said it saved.
Musk remains the most prominent tech bro in Trump's track while he leads
In the midst of the mass cutbacks, protests against the Tesla CEO in the weekend in the entire country.
Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered on Saturday outside a Tesla dealer in the Big Apple, waving with signs with the text 'No dictators in the US' and 'Burn a Tesla: Save Democracy'.
The demonstration, of which the police said it was about 300 people, protested Musk for the dismissing of thousands of federal employees and the termination of one hundred auxiliary contracts and federal lease contracts in his attempt to reduce the government.
At a certain moment during the protest, at least one of the glass front doors of the Tesla store was brought into the chaos, reported the New York Daily News.
Nine people were arrested in the aftermath.
However, similar demonstrations also took place in the showrooms of the electric vehicle maker in Jacksonville, Florida; Tucson, Arizona, Los Angeles, California; and Boston, Massachusetts.
Sometimes the demonstrators blocked the traffic as they sang and waved signs, including one who read: “Send Elon to Mars.”
