Wiebe summarizes the worldview put forth by the millionaires as they coordinated to repulse the electoral threat to industrial capital, and it will sound familiar to anyone who has read the justifications of the Silicon Valley tycoons and their adulation of all things "destructive" and "entrepreneurial." According to the nineteenth-century catechism, only the "highest types of their race discovered more effective ways to combine land, labor, and capital, and drew society upward as the rest reorganized behind their leaders." The majority of "ordinary talent" was left to divide what remained after the requirements of capital, and "the weakest simply disappeared." The result was to be "an ever improving race winnowed by competition." Any violation of these "natural laws" would only benefit "the survival of the unfittest" and reverse the evolution of the race.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1916