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The part about calling it Cyberia was hilarious. I still can't stop laughing. What I don't understand is why people think technolibertarianism is the solution
by shitlord 13y ago
The part about calling it Cyberia was hilarious. I still can't stop laughing.
What I don't understand is why people think technolibertarianism is the solution to all our problems. Do people really think that if every single person in the US was a programmer, we would all be better off? Or that all of the world's problems can be solved with engineering?
- toomuchtodo 13y agoShort answer: Yes. Long answer: Not silicon valley per se, but the tech industry as a whole makes our technological progress look "easy". You know it isn't easy, I know it isn't easy, almost everyone here on HN knows "it isn't easy". Just as we all love to do to complexity here, society as a whole abstracts the hard part away, and hands over their hard earned money to get the tech without having to see nor do that hard work. Technology can, of course, make markets more efficient, connect suppliers and consumers, connect us all. What it can't do is solve the hardest problems. Because those problems are people problems, not tech problems. TL;DR The hardest problems aren't engineering problems. They're people/political problems.