As a fellow who moved from a city to the rural for this reason, I can tell you why this zeitgeist exists. Because the more observant of us read our history and

As a fellow who moved from a city to the rural for this reason, I can tell you why this zeitgeist exists. Because the more observant of us read our history and figured out that technology and software in particular is a weaponized form of capitalism that tries to fuck over every other part of the economy. Every day we work on reinventing grand rube goldberg versions of a PDP-11, insulated by a nice fluffy layer of know-nothing management, with the slow obfuscated goal to entrap, control and exploit any sector of the economy that actually does anything. - Logistics of people moving goods? Profits eaten by software. - Marketplaces of buyers/sellers of people? A percentage to the house of software. - Farming? Land speculation by software. - That one tiny minuscule coat pocket of economic required liquidity aside, the entirety of finance is parasitical and moved en masse to software a while back. - Eductation! Theres an app for that. Sure the investors have let it be a pleasant middle class job because building a green field full of grass is great way to catch a hog or the brightest people you can, smart people being the required instrument of your fuckery but thats finally coming to a close. Don't have to make the grass so green when you own everything anyway. And we're at the point where they're onto nakedly buying governments. The extensively cultivated naivety of this site aside (when it comes to power), I think most of you know whats coming and that you probably shouldn't be entirely dependent on the tech companies in the future. But as always, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."