I'm not disagreeing about representative pressure. Listen, I've been in almost every congressional office building on the hill and participated in several hous

I'm not disagreeing about representative pressure. Listen, I've been in almost every congressional office building on the hill and participated in several house campaigns, including a successful one. But I also don't kid myself: this kind of action is not playing the long game. The agenda is set such that congress really doesn't even get to vote on the important matters directly. For example, there will never be a vote directly on the matter of whether to spend money gleaned from taxing gig economy companies on shoring up services or bombing brown people. But that's not even the point. Government is not the long game. The state is temporary and its time is nearly over. The long game is human evolution, especially what we today call "technology."