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History says it's like this for decades, centuries... Until it isn't. And then it's guillotines and chaos.

I fear the Children of Men style future we're stepping into.

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I got admonished by a moderator here for using that word, be careful.

What word are you referring to? I’m missing something here.

Probably French style capital punishment

We don’t need the French, we can live stream executions now.

You could be forgiven for, "Botched execution," and, "First public execution in decades," happening, in that order, within a couple weeks of each other, coming off as a sort of Bronze Age hint given by fate and our hubris-driven refusal to take it.

Yeah, I guess it’s part of doing risk/reward like the taxes thing. It works for many but sometimes it gets ugly for few either by chance or social/political reasons and of course saying everybody does it it’s not helping. I think the Dieselgate was the same thing.

Another recent take is that you could go to jail or bankrupt for sharing some content or you could become billionaire/trillionaire torrenting the whole world. It’s more about the timing and leverage you build along the way.

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