When I got caught dropping litter at school, I didn't get a pointless detention, I got put on litter clean-up duty. I am a big fan of negative feedback that in

When I got caught dropping litter at school, I didn't get a pointless detention, I got put on litter clean-up duty. I am a big fan of negative feedback that inverts some factor and re-applies it to a problem. This "flipping of sign" creates "poetic justice", and useful self-correction which itself can be a rallying spectacle and moral example. For example: Don't break up BigTech. Directly fund startup competitors from fines imposed on FAAMG such that their own misbehaviour becomes the instrument of their undoing. Tor was created by the US Navy as a censorship resistant instrument in the project of spreading liberal democratic values. Therefore, money and other assets seized from oligarchs and tyrants seems a poetic way to fund its development.