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Every time someone starts talking in grand terms about how the entire status quo of some major facet of civilization "should be" a certain way with zero reflection on the systemic incentives that have led it to be the way it is I die a little inside.

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Could you be a bit more specific? This whole point of this article is to point out how systemic incentives haven't lived up to what they promised the internet would be like...

I think the entire point of the article was a discussion of the systemic incentives of capitalism and especially private ownership of what turned into a public service, so I don't see how you can say there was zero reflection.

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