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I wanted fully-automated luxury communism, but I got fully-automated neo-feudalism instead. It feels bad.

• VladVladikoff 2y ago
  Pretty much every piece of technology we have known so far which had creator restrictions has been jailbroken. Sure the future might be Elon & Bezos androids, but what’s stopping us from jailbreaking them and using them off grid?
  • wahnfrieden 2y ago
    Police and military
  • stego-tech 2y ago
    Police forces protecting the interests of capital first, citizens second, e.g. private police forces (Pinkertons) and strikebreaking. Militaries being used by Governments to protect the interests of capital at the expense of citizens, e.g. the Battle of Blair Mountain. Government legislation enshrining the rights of capital and profit over the rights of citizens, e.g. copyright laws and DRM protections. Centralization of systems and dependency of products on remote compute, e.g. public cloud service providers, social media networks, shifting from wired to wireless home ISPs and networks to reduce stability of private hosting. They made it illegal to break DRM on their devices, send the police to protect their property, leverage the military to annihilate opposition, and now use modern technologies to prohibit end user control by requiring remote dependencies for operation. That's how they stop you.