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Then the people who punish those in power will gain too much power. The reality is our system is not compatible with the internet. Our system is made for a net
by borgdefenser 2y ago
Then the people who punish those in power will gain too much power.
The reality is our system is not compatible with the internet. Our system is made for a network with much lower density and clustering coefficient. When you crank these up with the internet, it creates power law distributions everywhere.
Complaining a few people have all the wealth when we have created a society with this massive power law distribution of wealth is just pointlessly stupid. Of course they do.
There is nothing really to figure out. The system isn't going to work long term.
I think most people are just in denial of this because they think there is a solution. No, what we are doing right now, communicating like this, is the problem itself.
Of course, if we stopped using the internet society would collapse too.
There is no solution.
- johnecheck 2y agoWhile I agree that 'our system' is failing in part due to its preference for a sparser network than the one we have today, I disagree strongly on your conclusion. You (and I) have no idea whether there is a solution. We've only explored the tiniest fraction of the societal solution space. The idea that we've exhaustively searched it by trying both "communism" AND "capitalism" is idiocy. Choose to believe that we can build a better world. It might not be true, but it's certainly false if none of us believe it.