Tools of value creation will always be co-opted by the wealthy and crippled to extract profit.
Always.
I was there when bitcoin went from a cool idea to trust fund kiddie entrepreneurship racket, and it was completely the big money buying into it to co-opt it and control it.
And they did, so now the once widely distributed node network is controlled by a handful of high end companies with millions in hardware.
Capitalism is a parasite that abstracts all wealth away from those actually working to make the world better, and puts it in the hands of the most ruthless and sociopathic.
Tools of value creation will always be co-opted by the wealthy and crippled to extract profit.
Always.
I was there when bitcoin went from a cool idea to trust fund kiddie entrepreneurship racket, and it was completely the big money buying into it to co-opt it and control it.
And they did, so now the once widely distributed node network is controlled by a handful of high end companies with millions in hardware.
Capitalism is a parasite that abstracts all wealth away from those actually working to make the world better, and puts it in the hands of the most ruthless and sociopathic.