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It’s a feature, in the same way that the decentralized nature of white collar crime is a feature. The bug is in the people who naively believe that technology changes human nature, rather than empowering it.

Those people need to be locked in a small room with an excellent library to study history for at least a year.



You could say the same thing for historical approaches to central planning of anything. Plenty of good and bad to go around.


You start out with a good point, but the idea that there is one default human nature isn't right.


Individuals don’t really matter in the calculus of billions of people. The dominant trends are frankly old, and persistent.


The bandwidth, latency, and fidelity with which information is transferred between individuals has changed the calculus of billions of people dramatically.


The out come has changed over time, and that's what science says, not my personal observation.




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