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Maybe as engineering got more advanced economies of scale paid off more and more. We don't get all our food from family farms either. Not trying to be some fas
by Ericson2314 6y ago
Maybe as engineering got more advanced economies of scale paid off more and more. We don't get all our food from family farms either.
Not trying to be some fascist statist, let's just recognize that since the 1980s, we've not been in a new gilded age so much as a gilded age cosplay (e.g. we are not actually closer to well functioning free-market capitalism for the "real" economy), and growth and large-scale investment have stalled accordingly. A lot of libertarian and decentralization ideology has grown up in the era since under false pretenses.
I would love devolved power and decentralization to actually work, but we need better, more honest theory on how to make it good, and less blind faith that centralization and monopolization will fail because that bad and "the arc of history bends towards justice".
- dnautics 6y ago> I would love devolved power and decentralization to actually work, but we need better, more honest theory on how to make it good, and less blind faith that centralization and monopolization will fail because that bad and "the arc of history bends towards justice". I mean come on. The only way you will get to that theory is if you have brave people who try (maybe that's self serving), and if you aren't at least questioning the narrative of "the only way forward is through the state", especially when there is (increasingly sporadic, anecdotal) evidence to the contrary, then you are tacitly discouraging people to try.
- Ericson2314 6y agoI am trying? For example I like to work on Nixpkgs because I think it is the Wikipedia of the software commons. I am doing some things with Nix and IPFS at the moment for similar reasons. I share my doubts here because HM tends to overly romanticize small organizations. I don't mean to tell people to give up and work for FAANG.