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> No. Centralizing control of something that was designed to be distributed is what is stupid. Sounds like the issues we currently have with democracy.

• seanw444 3y ago
  Distributed power takes more effort. Of course people naturally trend towards lazy over the generations because it's easier and more efficient at the cost of everything it was initially supposed to be. And now we are where we are: executive branch agencies legislating.
  • badtension 3y ago
    That's why we shouldn't optimize everything, the longer I live the more I understand that overoptimization is the root of all evil. We should analyse what we are doing and how we are changing things in the long term, monitor the situation and adjust accordingly. Otherwise our systems will find a local optimum that benefit the most powerful groups. Happens in all aspects of life, modern capitalism being the prime example.
    • CatWChainsaw 3y ago
      Neil Postman was only slightly wrong. Optimizing Ourselves to Death indeed.