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> What prevents the powerful from going straight to the source of production and value? Nothing. Certainly not this crowd. Which is why I expect the long term
by PavlovsCat 10y ago
> What prevents the powerful from going straight to the source of production and value?
Nothing. Certainly not this crowd. Which is why I expect the long term future to hold something akin to a Blitzkrieg that will actually be over in a flash. After the delete function has been prepared and perfected, the delete button gets pushed. Not by the naive fools who built it, mind you. Those will a.) hardly know what they're working on and b.) be gone first.
- willholloway 10y agoI have an extremely strong feeling that this is the most important comment ever posted to Hacker News. We won't understand that it was until it's over, but then, looking back forensically over the waste and ash heap before us, we will see that PavlovsCat predicted all of this, and we should have listened.