[QAPereo]

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.

[baddox]

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

[TokyoKid]

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

[QAPereo]

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

[colordrops]

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

[TokyoKid]

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