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by kthejoker2 1885 days ago
Crypto, gig working, social media, HFT, and ad tech are all symptoms of late-stage capitalism - perfectly neutral technical ideas that are completely unworkable in our current sociopolitical and economic structures.

Surely everyone would agree that putting our collective intelligence into 100-year timeframes for lifting all of humanity would be a great boon.. .

And yet we're stuck in Black Mirror world of fraud, exploitation, misinformation, "eff you, got mine" shenanigans.

Really exhausting as someone who grew up with a twinkle in his eye about changing the world through technology.