"Powerful technologies, when placed in the hands of bad actors with ugly motives in an incentive structure that encourages usury, are bad". Sure. But how abou

"Powerful technologies, when placed in the hands of bad actors with ugly motives in an incentive structure that encourages usury, are bad". Sure. But how about we do something about all the rest of that instead? Open source all the things. Create locally runnable software. Move from social networks to social protocols. Decouple from the economic juggernaut whose only goal is to maintain a stratification of social class and persist an artificial scarcity that keeps people wage-enslaved. Then we can develop all the superpowered tech we want without stressing about this bullshit, and maybe (just MAYBE) develop something to prevent the oceans from boiling over before 2100.