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All today’s new tech ideas must stand up to the question of whether they are viable in a majority bad actor environment.

If they were like cars, only bulletproof armored personnel transports need apply.

The modern Internet is basically a failed state.

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This is an incredibly important comment.

When you think about it, the modern internet resembles a welfare state. Everyone's day to day sustenance is sponsored by a few wealthy benefactors, meanwhile they essentially hoover up what remaining potentials there is. There could be so much more than what we think is possible now.

I think that’s probably more aptly described as serfdom than as a welfare state

A welfare state works for the benefit of its people, at the cost of business. The internet is precisely the opposite.

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